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Goto: 2011-09-19 2011-09-21 Peru

2011-09-20:

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Distance today: 30.0 km (Accumulated: 28410.0 km)
Elapsed time: 02:40:13
Country: Peru

Start 10:45am., 15c, overcast & light wind, at km-stone "580" on hwy. 1N. Finish 13:51pm., 25c, med. wind & same, at km-stone "610" on hwy. 1N.

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My supportdriver, Wilmer, arrived back from Lima; an about 1000km travel in total, costing the run some money and a restday. Result: Nothing.

The license plates which should have been picked up in order for the supportcar to cross into Equador a few weeks from now; not there. The international insurence to be bought in Lima, also in order to get across the border; similarly not there.

It will be interesting and, I fear, slightly expensive days ahead for the run. I should perhaps begin to research the possibilities for a Equadorian supportdriver well in time !

Its not so that the supportdriver is to blame; most likely its a matter of bureaucracy the South American style', which unfortunately has been causing a large number of troubles for the run since Argentina. But with the budget for this month at zero - its not an unlimited amount of options we possess to try once more to obtain the nessecary things from Lima.

NB: If anyone should be in doubt (I dont think so ;-) then I am ofcourse Far from faultless myself. My personal contribution to the mishaps, was that I today forgot to switch the gps-tracker off' after I had finished the run. A little thing perhaps, but a huge No-No as it tracks the daily stages on the endomondo-system for full documentation of the entire world run 2 (backed up by similar gps-coding of all the daily pictures in the reports). So, if you click on the Endomondo-link on the frontpage, you will find that todays stage is tracked as 33km - when in fact it was only 30km. Its easy to spot where things went wrong, as ofcourse the speed of the support-car driving away with me after the finish... is quite a bit faster than the running ;-)

(Obviously the counted and claimed distance for today will be 30,0km and not the 33km tracked by the gps-device. There is no point in doing huge run's like these, if they are not done correct and honestly !)