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Day 1: Off to a good start!

Louis Blouin / 21.08.2008

The suffering has now begun. The race started with a 20 km paddle on the St-Lawrence river with the kayaks. The local team HARRINGTON had a little problem with their boat. But they quickly caught up with the other competitors after a quick repair.

Back on the land near Old-Fort, the teams had to do some trekking to reach a few check points between mountains. An incredible 70 meter rope section was the next event on a big cliff near the water. What a wonderful sight up there! The teams had to get wet to return to their kayaks because of the high tide. The South African team was leading around noon.

Then, for the bike section, they had to pass trough the Old-Fort village and climb big hills to get to some checkpoints between lakes and big mountains. The participants that made it to the 'Extreme' course needed to do an other trekking section on an island in front of Old-Fort. The finish is in the heart of the village. The first team arrived around 5 p.m. The last one is expected at 10 p.m.

Here are the results for the first section we had when we wrote theses lines...

The teams AVERN OUTDOOR (Fred Parzych and Stéphane Dumortier) and SPORT 2000 LAFUMA (Hervé Simon and Guillaume Peyronnet) from France arrived at the same time. They were followed closely by the team XTREME SOUTH AFRICA (Phillipe Van Der Leeuw and Jeremy Green).

In the mixed category, the team YOGASLACKERS from United-States (Jason Magness, Daniel Staudigel, Lina Augaitis and Mark Lattanzi) crossed the finish line first.

The next part of the race will be launched in Old-Fort tomorrow at 7 a.m.

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