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Team Sole gives a final report
Team Sole / Photos Theo Ribeiro / 02.11.2007
Many thanks to Team Sole for yet another report from the field!www.teamsole.com
The dust has settled, the music has died, and we’re just tripping over the hundreds, maybe thousands of gear items sprawled out all over the race base camp.
EcoMotion 2007 is complete; everyone is in safe and sound. This race has built itself up to be the top, must-do adventure event in the world. Team SOLE was returning as ’06 champions… expectations were high, but this year’s field was just a bit more stacked than last year’s. Per usual, we would take a humble approach to this event. There are about 1 million things that must go right just to even finish these expedition races, and to even boast of riding on last year’s glory is just not our style. Adventure gods can and do strike down upon thee with great vengeance anytime arrogance shows its head.
The players are Paul and Karen as usual co-captains, Marcel Hagener our 2007 3rd man, and our work horse addition Eric ‘Sully’ Sullivan from Crested Butte Colorado. We raced with Sully in China where his uphill speed and strength got us on the podium, and we’d need that again here in Brazil. The hills in Brazil are serious, and pretty much nonstop. In this expedition race we also need a support crew. These are friends of ours that volunteer for 1 week of slave labor: hauling our gear around, and making sure we have all the resources we need. We’d have, for the 3rd year in a row, our friend Cesar from Porto Allegre (in the south), and for the 2nd year Carlinos from Rio, as well as a newcomer named Leo who is a guide in the local mountains. See All Event Posts
