Route de Sel (Trans 555) - Day 3
By Luke Cunliffe.
7:45pm Friday 5th November.. and for me unfortunately it been an absolutely disastrous 24 hours which culminated in me retiring from the race at about lunchtime today. The problems I had for the first day and a half just didn't seem to abate. I got progressively weaker - as I was unable to eat or drink anything and keep it down despote several attempts, so unfortunately by lunchtime today it was pretty much all over. So with regret I've had to retire, which leaves me incredibly disappointed as you can imagine.
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Temperatures today are low - only 49 degrees celcius! - they were high yesterday apparently according to the organiser who are equally surprised at how incredibly hot it's been - and it seems a lot of the runners are suffering from heat problems as well - so I'm not the only one who's fallen ill of the route.
I had a very long night trying to eat and drink - but finally gave up and had to call it a day. Having been taken out of the race I was then moved forward a couple of checkpoints with the organisers to checkpoint 7, where I bumped into Wilko who was still going strong - although his feet are severely mullered at the moment. He and I swapped shoes and socks..and I'm happy that my shoes & socks that have done very well for me are going to do better for him. After 125km I haven't had a single blister - I'm amazed they worked so well - so many thanks to Montrail for sponsoring me with them.
The leader currently is Alicia Bahreiner and she winning by about a checkpoint at the moment..and she's ahead of Rene Heines who's running second.. Alicia and Rene have both won the Trans 333 in the past so I imagine it's going to be hotly contested last 6 or 7 days.
It's likely that only half the field will finish - if that - so we can only hope the remaining runners in the field keep themselves in fine fettle..
I'll keep you updated for the rest of the week... over and out..
Posted by: Admin on Nov 05, 04 | 7:27 pm |
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Dear Luke,
sorry to hear that and no wourds would be the right ones at this moment, but I only know you with a smile on your face - keep it
Best wishes
Anke
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Anke on Nov 09, 04 | 10:55 am
Luke, You are the man !Only the toughest would even attempt that race-and you are the toughest I know. It must be insane out there, dude ! Hope you'll be there when I get there in two weeks for 333.
Ray
Posted by: razor on Nov 06, 04 | 6:30 pm
Dear Luke,
We are very sorry that you have to quit the race and hope that you feel a little bit better now.
We are the parents of Wilco and appreciate the support you gave him the last days. And of course we are concerned about his feet, so how much luck can you have that you the same size and could switch.
We also want to thank you for your reports of the race and we will continu to read them the next days. If possible wish Wilco succes from us.
Thank you very much and enjoy the wetter.
With kind regards,
Cor en Wil van den Akker
Netherlands
lisenka.kornet@chello.nl
