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Goto: 2011-06-20 2011-06-22 Chile West

2011-06-21:

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Distance today: 20.0 km (Accumulated: 26689.0 km)
Elapsed time: 01:56:44
Country: Chile West

Start 11:15am., 13c, overcast and l.wind, at green km-sign "km 2070" on hwy.5. Finish 13:21pm., 17c, humid and same, at green km-sign "2087" on hwy.5.
(Nb: the distance between signs and the actual distance differs since I ran through Arica instead of bypassing on the hwy.5).

city-running...

The stage today was a typical example of why running through the cities across the varios contries of the world can sometimes be a challenge in itself: Besides navigating fairly swift through the maze of streets (the Norhtamerican and the Australian cities are easy in that way though, almost always a straight grid-system of streets), there is nearly each time a risk of loosing contact between supportcar and runner as both dives' through intense traffic and dodges one-way streets, road-work and re-directions of traffic. The run though Arica with its 200 000citizens plus suburbs was no exception. After 3km we lost bearing of eachother and while Alex went donw one street I ran down another. Both certain that the other was "just up ahead" - that quickly turned out not to be the case and I got utterly lost and.. in the process the temper was lost too !

However Alex is a very patient type of american who take all the outburst of oppinions with a stoic calm. And also this time - and we finally got me running out on the other side of the city - bound for the border to Peru which should be just a few kms ahead now !!

NB: Two days ago Jamie flew in from Santiago with a replacement for the gps-unit which stopped working. The replacement works and tracks the running - but - I cant get it to upload the track to the internet. I'll work on a solution ! In the mean time I'll make sure that each stage has pleanty of photo's to supplement the documentation, though the gps-track of the run is always the best form of documentation.