Day 7 : The Last Day

- Today exactly 1 week since the departure of Paris, it was a special day with a dealership event in Warsaw, meaning that Sylvain had planned a shorter stage for the team (i.e. 60 kilometers). So Jean-Pierre proposed to run in pairs to have each of us run 15 kilometers. The objective was also to ally pleasure and running.

- The process that was put in place meant that each runner would cover 5 kilometer with one other runner, then 5 kilometers alone and finally the last 5 kilometers with a second runner. We repeated the process throughout the stage.

- We woke up less early at midnight with the objective to start at 1:00 AM. But before we all sat together with team 3 to have breakfast. This gave us an opportunity to share memories.

- At 1:00 AM sharp, both Andrey and Jean Pierre started running. The objective was to bring Andrei as far as possible with his ankle still hurting him. And he achieved big things today…

- The rest of team performed very well. Everybody was motivated and in good physical conditions. Running in pairs gave us a lot of energy and will to run to Warsaw.

- We arrived in Warsaw at 6:30 AM – meaning that it took us only 5 hours and 30 minutes to cover the whole distance. Sylvain, Jean Francois and Andrei made their entrance in the beautiful historical center of Warsaw where the whole team took pictures while waiting for team 2.

- Finally Renault Warsaw welcomes us to introduce our team during the yearly Renault Sport Event. It was an opportunity for Andrey, Kevin and Jean-François to describe our Challenge and to get the signature of Renault Poland and RRG Warsaw on the flag.

“Word of the day”

 * Jean François said : “Loved the footing in the historical neighborhood of Warsaw”

 * Sylvain said: “Twin running = good running!!!”

 * Jean Pierre said: "I really appreciated running in pairs”

 * Andrey said: “It was a pleasure to run with JF and JP; thanks for everyone support in the team”

 * Alexander said: “The team spirit of today was a great example of how great things can be achieved and this should be shown all around the Alliance”

 * Jerome said: “Original idea from JP to build team spirit even further”

 * Kevin  said: “Loving every single minute of our quest and sharing great memories with awesome people ”

Van 2 news :

We decided to have a grouped start at Zamkuwy place in order to have the opportunity to visit Varsovia. See our small video posted on Facebook.

For the first time we arrived a little bit late (30 minute) at our meeting with Van, 2 due to traffic jams so our challenge was to be on time despite this wasted time and the longest stage since the beginning

In addition we could have spoken about closed roads and lost runners …but we prefer to keep that as “good souvenirs”.

Dogs for sure were not “good souvenirs”, the last runner of the day was surrounded by a lot of aggressive dogs. We tried to use the van’s Horn to frighten them but it was not so successful.

The motivation of the team and our new specific time management method(*) makes the challenge reached and even overpassed; we finally arrived 10 minutes in advance regarding the schedule.

The road to the hotel was in a very bad condition no one could sleep due to the shaking effect!

(*) TEAM 2 PROPERTY