World Run II / Reports

The map shows the position of which the pictures for the day are taken (if any). The start and finish markers are placed at the first and last valid registered position. This is not nessesary the actual start and finish position, if GSM or GPS signals was not available.

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2008-09-27:

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Distance today: 41.0 km (Accumulated: 4278.0 km)
Elapsed time: 04:00:10
Country: Europe

Start 9:34am., at km-marker 34 on r.31, near Mende village.
12c, overcast and l. wind.
Finish 16:30pm. At km-marker 9 on r.311. 17c, half overcast and same.

Another stage where Sarah had to battle stomack-trouble. And again she refuse to give in, but insist to move forward raughter than to take a "rest & recovery day"; what a worrior ! Hope its the right decition (had I been in those pains I might have chosen the recover option !). Yesterday we kept contact via txt messages on the phones once a hour, her moderate pace quickly putting 10-15km between us. At the end it got toodark to reach the finishpoint but she documented her finish w. the spare phone-cam. and will make an early start to cover the few remaining km.

It was a tough fight and not entirely easy to make the co-navigation-guiding through the 1,8 million Budapest city via sms-messages but it worked without major mishaps and it speaks much about her determination that she maneaged despite pains, nausea, 'roadside-visits', a foreign language and strange roadsigns !:-)

For my part the stage went ok apart from some stressfull traffic in the East surbubs of Budapest; same traffic conditions as Poland, worse roads..
Yet the stomack 'tests' seems to be over for my part so I must be gratefull :-)

Today there were definate signs of progress for Sarah and it looks like she is pulling out of the downward trend that had begun. Often there is a certain amount of loosing and re-gaining your 'runningconfidence' at play!