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Hours Before Race Start Friday, July 21, 2000
Hey, hey, it's 10pm Friday night and Team Argentina, we're about ready to go to bed. We've got our maps, had our race meeting, talked over strategy, where we want to go, who's going to rotate in and out, and I think that's about it. We have to get up early, early — race start at 6am and we check in at 5:30, and the gun goes off. We think it's just going to be a super fast, super hard race. There's a ton of really good teams here. There's really strict cutoffs and Barry, the race organizer, was saying that it's pretty common, in these races, for only the first few teams to make it through all the cutoffs in the race. We'll see. We're trying to have a good attitude and I'm learning to speak Spanish — I'll have a crash course this weekend — and we're all learning to in-line skate. K2 set me up our team actually, our whole team, with some new skates and we're ready to go. So off to bed, and we'll talk to you guys out there have a good night. Okay everyone, it's 10:25 and I'm calling to say goodnight finally and to let you know I won't take you to the start line just because it's going to be too crazy: 50 teams, everybody just jumping on their bikes and getting going. They're starting us at, I think, 10-second intervals or 15-second intervals based on our jersey number. It's going to be an all-out sprint right at the beginning, straight uphill on a mountain bike and so I probably won't have a lot of breath to leave you a message. But we're ready to go. Sebastian (Tagle) and I have finished the maps and Loly (Roberts) and Fernando (Marcenaro) are sleeping away and Carol is getting all the assistance gear ready and cars packed. We start on mountain bike and then, let's see, we go to a quick in-line skate, and then a long hike, with rappelling and climbing, and back on the bikes and then I don't remember — then, I think, paddling and then I don't remember. So, if all goes well, we'll arrive at our stop point tomorrow evening, actually probably very early in the morning on Sunday sometime after midnight, get a couple hours of sleep, and then start the thing all over again at 5:30, bright and early. Like I said, if everything goes well, we'll get a couple hours sleep. If it doesn't go well, then we get in and start right up again in the morning. I hope you guys are cheering for us — Team Argentina, wahoo! — Rebecca Rusch, Team Argentina
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