7 Cerros Medellin Adventure Race
Who's hurting and who's not
Jacqueline Windh / 15.10.2006
Saturday October 14, 2006
Day 1's three ascents, first on skates, then on bikes through the mud, then the highest one on foot, have taken their toll on many... yet others look fresh as a daisy!
HALTI's Mikael Nordström suffered more than most. "I shouldn't be here," he said as he lay crashed on the steps of City Hall at Plaza Alpujarra, at the finish line. "I haven't trained since Primal Quest, I've been busy oganizing the World Championships. It was brutal, so hard, the trekking, when you're so bad an out of shape. I don't know if I can do this again tomorrow."
That would explain why I saw Frida towing him around midday – Frida who, I might add, was smiling and laughing at the hotel restaurant over dinner, sitting with team SOLE (USA) since her boys were resting upstairs. SOLE looked good too, Paul wishing that the race had even been a couple of hours longer, to give them a chance to catch the leaders after their early mistakes (although Cyril confessed to being tired).
I had dinner with ABARTH-TEVA's Aurelio and Mónica. Mónica looked as if she were on vacation. "Ahh, my boys go slow," she laughed, "so I can go at my own rhythm."
Winning team FINLAND look strong, and with a good chance of repeating yesterday's flawless performance, and the French seem fine to go too. I didn't get a chance to see the Colombian teams after the race, since they are not at the same hotel as the international teams.
We leave the hotel in moments, set for Day 2. Today racers start on skates again, but there will be a lot more biking today, which makes teams such as SOLE pretty happy.
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