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Continuing the fight for third place

María José Cubero / 01.07.2011

After this Thursday night we knew the first two teams of Costa Rica Adventure Race, for Friday is lived intensely the dispute for third place, and where in the morning the team The North Face of Costa Rica has placed first, This despite the fact that by time Orosi maintains third place.

Yesterday organizers decided to neutralize times in the T11 competitions in Puerto Vargas this because of the darkness and difficult sea conditions for the testing of kayaking, and return to competition at 5 am.

At 5:15 am teams begin in the order that arrived, Nissan Ecuador took the lead in the race, but at some point took a wrong direction, teams Orosi and Agricenter Caribe followed Nissan on the route, it that made them lose significant minutes when he realized the error.

This was used by Costa Rican The North Face and came first to the T12 in Playa Negra. They reached that point at 7:01 am. Orosi arrived at 7:19 am, at 7:27 Agricenter Caribe and Nissan Ecuador at 7:28 minutes.

In general Orosi holds considerable difference from the North Face.

At that point made the transition to 27-kilometer mountain bike through San Miguel heading to beach for trekking Gandoca final 12 kilometers toward the canopy on the finish line at the Hotel Almendros y Corales.
In other news, Brazil Paradofobia came first to Finish line in the sub categories, they were not yesterday in the neutralization of time, beacuse they had already passed that point.

Others are still in the struggle for Sub Category are Saint Martin, Toyota Costa Rica and Patagonia, Chile. Athens Colombia and Aerodiva teams are far more behind.

Is expected that next team reach the finish line in the early afternoon.

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