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[RC] WEC: thoughts during the day ... - John TeeterJust happened to 1) watch a few minutes of the live tv cast. HRH Princess Haya - riding for Jordan. Zaafarn is a truly beautiful animal - cantering along (averaging 22km/hr on loop 3) with easy grace. It looks like that horse could go forever at that pace (of course looks via tv can be deceiving). She looked a bit tired, but she's halfway through a 160km race with a mount that is still, although obviously very well trained, making her work at keeping him paced.... 2) As would be expected, the ave pace of the top ten is 21+km/hr on loop 3. They held them back the first loop, let it loose a bit on loop 2 etc. the ride is increasing in pace (@2km/hr) over the first 90km. They are at out on loop 4 now (so they've done @100km - 60km to go). It's 12:30 here. If they keep this pace, we're looking at a finish of about 4:00-4:30 local time - and a ride time in the 7-8 hour range (lot's can happen though). I should point out, the top 20 are all clicking along at a 20+km/hr pace. and the top 30 are at 19+km/hr. The out times of Peter Toff (19th) and Sh Hazza (1st place) was 10 minutes leaving gate 3 ... it's the proverbial horse race:) images of steph and team Argentina (with Shieka Madiya driving the chase car!!) are at http://www.endurance.net/2004wec/gallery/ (and mercedes/kasal are running in 17th place!:) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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