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Full team now, but…

Chris and Karl arrived esterday evening, but unfortunately not their bike boxs, which contain most of their equipment… So we popped off up the cable car mountain for a few hours, and postphoned the packing till tomorrow. Will be a … Continue reading

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Cotopaxi

We awoke to another sunny day, and one of the clearest, though maybe that was because it was also our earliest start so far, leaving the hotel at 6:30. We jumped on a blue bus to get to our meeting … Continue reading

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Mitad del Mundo

Today we took the bus to the Mitad del Mundo monument on the equator. For good measure we also visited the Inti-Nan solar museum next door, which claims that the correct equator line, measured using modern GPS, goes through their … Continue reading

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“Yr” doesn’t work in Ecuador (luckily)

Our favourite weather-forecasting site, “yr.no”, has proved to be pretty useless in Ecuador. The weather forecast has been looking like this since way before we left home: This is what it has looked like in reality each day (view from … Continue reading

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A lazy day in town

Today we’ve had a lazy day here in the “lowlands”, visiting the old town and El Panacillo: “the little bread bun” hill with its statue on top. In the afternoon we went for a gentle jog in the park next … Continue reading

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Acclimatisation

We’ve been wondering what effect altitude would have on us, even though the organisers of this year’s Huairasinchi have promised that we will  “only” be going as high as 4400 masl. The airport outside Quito lies at a modest 2400 … Continue reading

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14 days left to go…

Our departure date is approaching fast. Jo Inge and Wendy leave home on November 1st and are busy packing. It’s obviously also a busy time at work, preparing for a three-week absence. Our training has been going well, with a … Continue reading

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30 days to go…

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60 days to go…

If anybody out there should happen to drop by this webpage occasionally, they will have noticed that we are a bit slow when it comes to blogging. Fortunately we have made rather more progress with our practical preparations for November, … Continue reading

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Marka24

This was our fourth Marka24, and from pre-race planning we hoped that this time we would manage to get all 24 controls within 24 hours. It certainly seemed a much more realistic proposition than on our previous attempt last year, … Continue reading

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