Rss/XmlDay 5 - Overcoming adversity
Team Merrell/Wigwam came into TA 10 in the late afternoon, finished with the mountain trekking and orienteering course, they looked haggard, but were pretty upbeat. Neil Jones had been sick during the entire mountain trek/orienteering section of the course, but was feeling much better.
Merrell/Wigwam had a little trouble starting out of TA 10, they were towing Neil Jones down the paved road.
The course design has teams getting access to their food boxes three times on the course. This has forced the teams to take enough food for up to 30 hours at a time. The last time teams will see their food boxes on the course is TA 9, so far no team has taken less than 30 hours to get from TA 9 to TA 10, with an estimated 20 hours left on the course after that the race finish could be difficult one. TAs and some CPs have gatorade and water and some have meal supplement shakes and powerbars.
Currently Nike PowerBlast and Go-Lite/Timberland are on the final ropes section, both teams are on hold due to lightning. The rest of the race is still continuing, its assumed that the race for first and second will continue with the same intervals once the lightning has cleared.
