Estoril Portugal XPD Race
The day before
Louize Hill/Filomena Gomes/Togumi / 05.12.2007
This Spanish team almost didn't make it this year. Despite having trained all season for this race, at last minute neither Monica nor Nubia, the two girls who usually race with the team couldn't get time off work, but Antonio de La Rosa, team captain told us that “luckily I met with Fernanda (the Brasilian who usually races with the team Atenah) in the race in Guadaloupe and I invited her to race with us here. At first she told me that her ankle was not in shape, probably a stress fraction, but she only thought for five minutes. She soon confirmed she would come, we sorted out her flight and now we have a strong woman on our team and we are really motivated�.
After a day of preparing everything for the race, the participants attended the race briefing, followed by the Prologue Stage. The briefing was held in a mix of English and Portuguese, with simultaneous translation.
The Prologue Stage was held in the centre of the town of Cascais. An original format that left many of the racers perplexed before it started. The organisers sent the athletes off looking for submarines hidden round the town in a life-sized game of battleships. Each team was given a map of the town, divided into squares and a list of questions, one for each square. The right answer gave the right to “shoot�, hitting either the target or landing in water. The first team to get all eight submarines will set off first tomorrow morning.
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