Route de Sel (Trans 555) - Day 6
By Luke Cunliffe
Monday 8th November - 9:30am. At Cp 16 - we've now had half the runners come through here - about 12 runners - and at the moment the runenrs that we've seen are still looking pretty reasonable. Many seem to be going in pairs - obviously finding it easier to travel with someone rather than on their own - although one or two are struggling along on their own.
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We had a fairly quite night here - we had some amazing views in the sky - including meteorite showers - absolutely amazing to see. All the runners arriving here overnight spent as little time as possible at the checkpoint - in order to keep going while the air is cool and they have some shade or darkness.
Right now it is becoming a litle brighter - a little hotter- and runners that arrive in middle of the day will probably stay around until about 4 in the afternoon. The vast majority of the field seem to be avoiding racing in the midday heat - which lasts from around 11am until about 4pm. Whlst they don't run during this time - it's also too hot to sleep - but at least the can get some rest and try to find some shade at each of the checkpoints.
As far as I know at the front we still have Alicia - followed by Rene. The last runner through this checkpoint was Jacques Morel - a veteran of many of these types of race. He was having a few problems with blisters and nose bleeds and things like that - but he is going very well. Interestingly he works all year on an oil rig so he's unable to do any training. So I asked him how many races he does a year - he replied - one. I asked him how much training he puts in - he said - none - which is pretty impressive. Jacques arrived with an italian runner - Fabio Civati. Jaxques left a little head of him - but I'm sure Fabio will catch up and they'll run together.
Overnight we had various runners come through - Patrick Bonnot, Luc Bouday to name a couple.
More tommorow.
Luke.
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