Second long qualification race

Trevor and I were both grateful for a late start time, which meant that we could plan to sleep in. We were awake and up  before our alarm ( but the alarm was set for 9.15, so that was still a good sleep in)

The weatherman had suggested dry weather, but when we looked out of the window it was wet again!

When we arrived we found that the finish chute had been changed a little to avoid the holes from yesterday

new finish chute on the left

Some of the paths were looking a bit the worse for wear.

The run was not as marshy as the previous day, and the marshes were not as wet-except the one at the end which was up to thigh high deep for some runners as they came across towards the last control.   I messed up control 4 ( used the wrong drinks control as my attack point and ended up too far south) and 7 a little (missed the high point and had to reorientate off of the parallel banks of cliffs, to the north east)  and needed to re orientate, but at no time was I so badly lost as on the previous day.

Sadly the rain persisted until about 1pm, with small breaks. This mean that the assembly area was, once again, a sea of umbrellas, tents, and backpacks and chairs covered in whatever way people could find.

my backpack ( yellow cover) -my cover is over mine and Trevor's pack

 View of part of the arena in a sunny break

Because I had an earlier start  I actually managed to see Trevor coming in the finish chute in his Aussie shirt and meet him at the final drink station.

We stopped to change, eat some food

And take a quick snapshot of some Aussies congregating near the welcome banner

Before catching our shuttle bus back once more to the Ullevi stadium , picking up the car and heading home to wash our soggy clothes and de-clog our shoes, socks and gaiters once more.

Neither of us had realized that there were hot showers available at the event. We might take advantage of them on Saturday after our runs, before we rush for the plane.

We think we have a workable plan for getting to the event on Saturday... once again we are relying on public transport.  So we need to find our way to a new parking spot, find a new tram stop  (  and tram going in the right direction) and get to the event (900 m walk) for Trevor to walk the 2700m to his start -which will probably be close to 9 am . Definite start times will be put on line some time today.

We need to do the house cleaning as much as possible tonight to allow for this very early exit tomorrow morning as we won't be back again once we leave for the event.