Cisco Euro Challenge
What Coming Up? Day Two
Rob Howard - SleepMonsters.com / 10.09.2004
Stage 4: 09.30 - 11.30. Cable Chaos.
Day two starts with a Construction Stage, where teams will be issued with, and also collect, equipment to build a construction which will be used to carry objects across the start line.
Engineering skills may be handy here, and this is a high risk stage for the leaders as there are heavy penalties for failing to complete. There are no half measures, and if their cables do end up in chaos it could spell disaster.
Stage 5: 14.00 – 16.30. Black and Blue
Teams get on their bikes for the final stage, and hopefully won’t end up black and blue!
The colour coding refers to three bike runs graded black, red and green in the way ski runs are. Teams have to find an Information Point and solve a puzzle to gain access to each bike run, and the more difficult the ride they accomplish the more bonus time they will earn.
Black will be the hardest ride, then Red and finally Green, and they’ll be able to solve the puzzles first then go from one run to the next, to the next ... if they have time and are strong enough. They will have to study the gradients on the maps carefully when deciding what to attempt.
All the teams will be taking spare inner-tubes and repair kits as there will be no allowance for mechanical failures and speedy puncture repairs may be critical. Teams will also be warned that unlike bikes in the UK the rear brake is on the right and the front on the left!!
They will all cross the line together finishing in the grand setting of the Olympic Stadium, but fast finishers will have to beware ... there is limited stopping distance!
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