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Less than 4 minutes separate the top three teams

Jacqueline Windh / 01.03.2010

Going into the final day of ARWS competition Xtremo6000, competition at the top of the Elite Mixed category was tight. Team Ischgualasto Parque Triásico (Argentina/Chile) had the lead, but four teams - Alcance Leones (Argentina), Rustik Merida (Argentina), Oskalunga WRR1 (Brazil) and Team Merida Laboratorios Abraham (Argentina) were all following closely, all four of them within 36 minutes of the leaders.

A lost passport at PC19 was for Alcance Leones threw them abruptly out of the competition. Navigation was problematic for Ischgualasto Parque Triásico, costing them a half hour that proved enough to drop them from first place at the beginning of Day 3, to 4th. But for the remaining three teams, the race was both tough and close.

Team Merida Laboratorios Abraham’s Corina Butti had twisted her knee on the first day - but her team-mates worked with her, helping her massage and stretch at night, to minimize the effects of the injury. Moving into the final navigational run of Day 3, Corina tells me that “Ariel is by far our best runner, so we just latched on to him and he towed us all.�

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