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Day 10 Sea Kayak delayed by headwinds
David Ogden - International Adventurers / 06.08.2008
The final stage included another leg of horse riding, mountain biking and kayaking, however when teams arrived at the sea a force 4 wind was blowing onshore and as some of the teams had only sit on top kayaks the organisation decided to postpone the section until tomorrow, when they would move the start nearer to Marseilles and restart. The Ride and Run on local Camargue horses, saw teams starting at one minute intervals in reverse order. There was little need to trot as the teams had plenty of time to complete the section. The horses tended to group naturally together, so this was a relaxing non competitive stage. Only one team MARINE NATIONALE - LATTITUDE 55 appeared to have a problem when the changed over, as their mount wanted to catch up with the others without waiting to be mounted. All the teams exceeded the minimum two hour time limited so had to wait at the end of the leg before they could enter transition.
The next leg was ride a run using mountain Bikes, and here its was noticeable that teams who had competed previously in The Oman Bike and Run Adventure. Had an advantage, so it was no surprise to see MARINE NATIONALE - LATTITUDE 55 who are unclassified leading the teams onto the beach, WILSA SPORT HELLY HANSEN posted the fastest time and HELLY HANSEN UK were seen to be running at race pace despite the heat. They consumed between 10-12 liters of water during the six hours they were racing.
Tonight the racers will camp on a beach with their support crews before setting off in the early hours of the morning for a short 30K paddle to the finish at a Beach to the East of Marseilles.
A Number of teams were given penalties in stage 5 for leaving the canyon by an unauthorisd road and werr spotted by the GeoPointer tracking system, on of the teams caught were HELLY HANSEN UK and they have dropped to sixth posisition in the ranking
Barring accidents the lead in the three classes is not likely to change during the final leg. WILSA SPORT HELLY HANSEN will be crowned winners tomorrow night by The Mayor of Marseilles at the prize giving in the town hall.
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