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August 10, 2019
Day Four – what a day this has been for one and all. We’ve had riders stretched between horse stations 11 and 16 with the lead swapping around like a game of three card monte, keeping HQ on their collective toes and our field crews on the move. The weather on the steppe did a complete flip-flop from wet, cold, and dreary to hot, dry, and bleary, putting the riders’ nerves, reserves, water supply, and limits to the test. Mother Nature Mongolia Style – she’s not for the faint of heart. The change in temperatures also brought a new wrinkle with respect to racing strategy: the cold damp weather may have made for a miserable ride, but it may have also helped keep those horses’ heart rates down. Holy heart rate penalties, Batman! After a veritable scarcity of penalties in the first three days of racing, the vets were busy today handing out heart rate penalties, marking up those pristine vet record cards that the riders guard with their lives.
This is not to say that the riders are riding irresponsibly – quite the contrary...
Read more here:
https://www.theadventurists.com/adventures/mongol-derby/updates/?fbclid=IwAR0bidCrOCXBkvCf1dpKBQcdtMTcvZ4ansrAcAyBRWJo7lUQri563xJRMjE#1
Daily updates here:
http://www.endurance.net/international/Mongolia/2019MongolDerby/
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