day 3

No drama for the canadian team on day 3. There were some troubles at the end of the day with the clubriders in the last enduro test, the dust got so thick that they had to stop riders go on the course. Stephen and Regis were affected by that and lost a couple of minutes, during the jury meeting was decided that the last check would be cancelled so the minutes were deleted again. Also the endurotest for today will be cancelled, so the day will be shortened by 20 minutes today.
Unfortunately Kurt Caselli ended up in hospital with a concusion (? spelling). And the top Spanish rider broke a leg. There were a lot of clutch replacements in the workarea this morning. Spectaculair to watch.
Last night we had the complete Canadian team at dinner at restaurant Central in town. People in town are still not used to our presence. We feel like we are some kind of zoo animals, being checked out a lot.
Back to this morning, it is very hot this morning. Around 09.00 we are all swetting already, looks like it is going to be a hard day for the riders. Still B schedule, but the heath may be more of a problem. All riders got off good this morning, except for Stephen, he was strugling to get his front tire on. He was 7 mintues late for his start. Hopefully this will not effect him so much as last tuesday.