Sunday, April 16, 2006

The Race takes its toll

The first day of the Sabah Adventure Challenge had seen two retirements. The second day of racing in hot and humid 34C saw many teams struggling. A lot of the racing was near a river and competitors were advised to jump in to cool. The race started with a quick run from the overnight camp towards the Flying Fox and in the Adventure class, it was the third place team from Hong Kong who managed to gain a 20 minute minute lead over the the chasing team from Singapore. Yestersdays leaders made a navigation error which dropped them down to 4th plave but they retired later in the day when one of themsuffered a torn toe nail and damaged thier knee during the accent and decent of a hill.

The Extreme race is close the leaders holding a 30 minute lead over the chasing pack going into the second day. The course for them ended with a long mountain bike leg of 80 kilometes including the decent that the adventure teams took yesterday and which cuased a number of falls. after some seven hours of racing the teams still had a long way to go to reach the finish.