The Sabah Adventure Challenge started off in Mount Kinabalu Park with orienteering,teams having to collect 6 our a possible 20 markers. A Team from Singapore lead the way, leaving the the first transition on mountain bikes as the second team from Hong Kong arrived.
The Mountain bike leg saw the teams biking some 9 kilometes along the road before decending into the river valley down a steep mountain track, where a few spills were incurred. Once in the valley the teams followed the road to Kuilu where a flying fox was set up. Dispite a damaged bike the team from Singapore held their lead but a Malaysian team was snapping at the heels of the Hong Kong pair.
The Final leg of the day was tubing and here disater struck when one of the leading pair got caught in a large eddy and allowed the chasing teams to slip past. the managed to repass the Hong Kong Team, but by this time the Malysian were clean away finishing some three minutes ahead of them.
Five minutes seperates the leading teams which have a comanding lead over the rest of the field to take into the second day which starts at 0730 tomorrow.
The extreme classifation followed a slightly different route which includes a 40 K Bike and run and more on this event will be posted tomorrow.