D11

Today, we’ve all run in pairs to cover a rather short distance and it all started with Jean-Pierre and Jean-Francois. They ran within the city of Bryansk: they loved it even if it was raining and even if the pavement was sometimes tricky. They were really sad when we told them to pass the relay.

 

- We met with Team 2 in Marinichi where we passed the relay to Kiril on time.

- We’ve also found a nickname for our team. From now on, we will be called the “Bats” team because we’re the early birds of the Alliance Team that run during the night.

 

- We tried to find an alternative hotel to optimize sleeping tomorrow. Unfortunately, we ended up in very small cities with nothing for us. So we finally had to go back to the initial plan.

 

“Word of the day”

 * Jean François said: “Just fun running in the water”

 * Sylvain said: “Difficult to restart after a good rest day”

 * Jean Pierre said: "Always a thrill to run during the night”

 * Andrey said: “Running for pleasure reminds me week-ends in my city”

 * Alexander said: “It is really sad to enter the last part of our way to Togliatti; but I made some new friends and I hope we will all keep in touch later”

* Jerome said: “Flip-flop running with my friend Andrey as we spent some nice time together sharing pain caused by our injuries”

* Kevin said: “It’s really sad that this project is coming to an end on Sunday (i.e. sic)".

Van 2 news :

A bad beginning of the day the breakfast was served at 7 h 30 and we had to leave the hotel at 7 with empty stomachs in order to be on time for the relay rdv with Van One (bats runners)

Bad road starts, we face a lot of trucks linked with a cloudy and cold weather.

We took a picture with road workers in Narichkino, we provide to one of them an “Alliance Running” cap.

Dogs were hardly defending a working area that’s obliged the runner to cross the road..(dogs or trucks…rapid decision to take).

The entrance of Orel was particularly a hard moment due to traffic and road conditions.

At Orel we relay with Van 3, we were so quick that we were able to take our lunch with them in a good restaurant “Labirynt”….