Route de Sel (Trans 555) - Day 7
By Luke Cunliffe
Good morning it's tuesday the 9th of November, 10:25am. Last night I spent the night at checkpoint 22 which was about 60km from the end of the race. I was very pleased to see Alicia when she arrived in 1st position still - now some 40km ahead of the next runner. But after a break of only half an hour with a little massage and taking on board some electrolytes she went on her way.
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The next person I saw come through the checkpoint was around 9 hours later - that was Gerard Cain - he's overtaken Francis and Rene Heintz at some point during the night. This morning I moved on - and this morning I'm at checkpint 24 which is the penultimate checkpoint. When I arrived I asked if Alicia had arrived yet - and I was told she had left 30 minutes earlier. She no longer known as Alicia here - she now known as "the gazelle", and she is definately worthy of the title. Most of the runners have run in groups of 2 or 3 - Alicia has done the entire event on her own.
The organisers were orginally sceptical of her approach. Now they are not only having to come to terms with the fact that the winner will not be French - but also the they will be a woman - which is a source of great amusement to me.
She did leave here 30 minutes ago - and I'm now going by jeep to the finish line where I hope to get some pictures of her as she crosses the line.
I'll be back with more news in the near future.
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