17th place on today’s kayak stage – not bad considering that Christian only took up kayaking when he found out that he would be coming to Abu Dhabi! Overall Jotun Paints finished in 31st place. The team has had many good stages, but were punished in more ways than one for their trouble in the desert.
“Of course, you can always wonder afterwards whether we pushed too hard on some stages” says team captain Bjørn Håvard. “To fulfil our ambition to be amongst the top 10- 12 we had to race that hard. So there’s the question whether that was the right goal for us. I don’t think we gambled any more than we had to. The fact that we had trouble with the desert stage could also be put down to coping with the heat. I think we had a bit of a heat shock. So even though you manage to eat and drink enough for normal conditions, there’s a heat factor that means that you react differently than normal”.
Now, after a week, the team are finally starting to adjust to the heat. So it’s going to be a shock in a couple of days when they return to Norway’s winter cold!
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