Friday, November 13, 2009

Middle of Stage 5


Mark looking a little the worse for wear...


Nga Rakau just came through the end of the Stage 3 Leg 3 MTB. They only picked up the easy CPs, as they still have to fit a 35km trek, 65km MTB and 25km trek into the last 21 hours.

Neil is feeling a little bit toasted at the moment, apparently when things got desperate on the last leg, they stopped at a cafe for coffee. Mark pointed to a tray of food in the cabinet and asked him which things he'd like, he said 'probably all of it'. Which they did. Then ... story according to Mark ... some old local chaps came in and asked in Portugese the equivalent of 'where the f&%k is all the food ?'. The old duck behind the counter pointed at Nga Rakau's table and replied in Portugese the equivalent of 'those greedy pricks'.

Orion and Nike will also be shortening this MTB, as there's a 2pm cutoff here, and it will be fairly tight. It's 1:26pm now, and neither are here yet.

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