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Posted: 28 May 2007, 6:16 AM
Stage2 - Trek: Looks like both Aaron and Brent's teams are closing on the French leaders. Chris a bit behind off the water but making good progress into top 10
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nick
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 7:45 AM
French holding their lead, Balance Vector (Aaron) still second with Orion (Brent) breathing down their necks. Nike (Chris) into top 5. Strong Kiwi navigators obviously making gains in the nighttime trek through scottish highlands. Merrell has come from 20something place into 10th.
The google earth/gps tracker is awesome
http://www.sleepmonsters.com/racereport.php?page_action=map&race_id=2905
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Jamie
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 8:41 AM
and leading team Wilsa Helly Hansen has former world o champion Alain Berger
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nick
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 9:57 AM
WHH have had a good night maintaining an appreciable lead throughout the nighttime trek. They've probably extended their lead in the last two hours. Will be getting light soon which will ease their approach along a sharp ridge to next CP.
Hard to tell precisely how close Orion and Balance Vector are to each other - obviously within the gps udate margin cos they seem to be leapfrogging each other
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Marquita G
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 11:23 AM
How do you know where the CPs are?? Nothing obvious on the google earth/gps thing.
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nick
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 1:27 PM
yeah nah dunno eh
even the official website doesn't give much clue... maybe there aren't any more than shown on g.e.? (then why the crazy route choice?)
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SimonB
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 3:04 PM
i dunno how accurate the gps is a... some of their routes are al over the show
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Jamie
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Posted: 28 May 2007, 3:10 PM
nick, do you mean the short coursed teams?
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nick
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Posted: 29 May 2007, 3:00 AM
nah i meant why were they all going over to sourlies before heading up to ben aden?
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Martin
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Posted: 29 May 2007, 3:27 AM
it's probably because the gps locations aren't updating frequently enough.
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Greg
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Posted: 29 May 2007, 5:04 AM
Is anyone else having problems loading the tracker?
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Jamie
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Posted: 29 May 2007, 5:12 AM
yep, haven't been able to for a couple of hours
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nick
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Posted: 29 May 2007, 8:24 AM
same - been trying all day
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Svend
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Posted: 29 May 2007, 11:50 AM
It loaded OK for me this morning 7:00 AM again tonight at 7:45 PM
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Greg
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Posted: 29 May 2007, 12:12 PM
It was down from about 8:30am till about 5:30pm.
Looks like all the front runners have taken a sleep at the town just before the swim in Lock Ness. Orion, Vector and Nike are all there now with swedish team Bjurfors while race leaders Wilsa HellyHansen have just finished the Paddle across the Loch.
Best info so far, the rest of the coverage is crap, splits are not up until each transition and there is no indication of where the checkpoints are.
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onemanfanclub
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Posted: 30 May 2007, 7:56 AM
Hope nobody gets eaten by monsters (sleep monsters?) while swimming Loch Ness
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