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What Lies Ahead!!

SleepMonsters Australia / 19.02.2006

But the sheer scale of the race is already sinking in. It wasn’t so evident in Broken Hill because the country was so big,until you realized that the maps you were working off were 1:100000, and there were atleast 10 of them covering the course, in comparison the likes of Mountain Designs Geoquest usually uses 4 or 5 X 1:25000 maps,

In Tasmania this year the sheer scale becomes apparent when you look at the map of Tassie. For example from Burnie on the North West Coast to Hobart is approx 330km, so in essence you could almost start and finish in Hobart and cover the whole state in order to finish with 650km.

After a day of optional whitewater training on the Derwent River yesterday competitors can be comforted with the thought that they wont have to propel their craft by themselves for the WHOLE way.

So will the race course take competitors on the Overland Track! will they visit the World Heritage listed South West and the South Coast Track or Port Davey Track!. Will they be rafting the through the pristine Wilderness of the Franklin and Gordon Wild Rivers NP or will they in fact revisit the Derwent River! Will they be biking through the Spectacular Freycinet National Park or find themselves slogging it out up Mt Wellington only a stones throw from the finish! All these questions and more will be revealed at 9am tomorrow.

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