D12... Crazy Bats vs Crazy Chicken..

- One of the toughest days since the start of the race. We only got two hours of sleep before starting running again. We even had to wake-up at 10:30 AM to join the relay point with Team 3 that was 90 kilometers back.

- We performed 90 kilometers on two types of typical Russian roads: either small in bad conditions or more frequented roads where runners are sometimes vulnerable

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- A quick note about weather because some people in Russia promised “Indian Summer” conditions. However, we’ve gone as low as 7° Celsius with heavy rains and it is clearly not getting better. Some even forecast snow in Togliatti next Monday.

“Word of the day”

 * Jean François said: “A nice pit-stop along my way as I watched the train crossing the road with more than 30 wagons”

 * Sylvain said: “Crazy night for a crazy run with good sensations and pleasure on Russian roads at fast pace”

 * Jean Pierre said: "The crazy Bats are now flying to Togliatti during cold nights”

 * Andrey said: “Hard work today because no doc available the day before”

 * Alexander said: “Flying on the road was awesome! I would have loved to do an additional run around Elets”

* Jerome said: “First day with a tentative ‘siesta’ between 8:00 AM and 11:00 AM that was rejuvenating”

* Kevin said: “Nice run and our final day is coming closer everyday”

Van 2 news :

Cool beginning of the day, the team 1 change the relay and arrived directly at the hotel. Keving was running ,.. we welcome him !

We quickly face google map problems while we were going of the city, the road indicated were forbidden or closed…

We follow the map through the  lovely Russian Nature….the Nissan finish bogged in a dirt track, hopefully like by magic a small 4x4 truck just appear and help the chicken truck to joint Daniel who was running  away. At 11h 30 we were back to the schedule.

For the last relay, Andrey joined Emmanuel for the lasts km. He enjoy it even if Andrey had been hard to follow.

The relay to Van three had ben givent on P119 road, a very big and crowdy road…good luck van 3.