August 7, 2019
Holy thundering hooves of wonder that was one hell of a start to the race. Currently your correspondent is exhausted after getting no sleep for a week in the run up to the launch so I apologise in advance for the brevity of this update.
After being baked in the sun for the training sessions, the riders had their first slap about the face by the weather of Mongolia. The skies opened just as the riders started to tack up. What began as a slow drizzle evolved into a pre-longed soaking that made sure it was hanging around most of the day. Our concerns for the riders turned from heat stroke to hypothermia.
They lined up and ripped out into the wilderness at about 10:30am Mongolia time.
Bob Long (RL) and Frank Winters (FW) (Both hailing from the USA) pushed into the front pack showing all these young whippersnappers how it’s done. Frank somehow managed sneak out of HS2 forgetting to go through the vet check and came right back to loose his place in the front herd and leaving Bob to continue to show some most marvellous horsemanship…
Read more here:
https://www.theadventurists.com/adventures/mongol-derby/updates/?fbclid=IwAR1ejBla9Dg3x3rIOOVqgE1bLJfH41AzsYMSkWyFs7TpmrkmhB_QvYtVHyM
Daily updates here:
http://www.endurance.net/international/Mongolia/2019MongolDerby/
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