Team OrionHealth Adventure

Lots of tension round here.

Will Orion make it here before midnight.? A while ago we were thinking no. Now we're thinking yes. Teams have been taking 3-5 hours to get from the town of Ortiga to the end of the leg, and Orion were there around 7pm (although we don't know exactly which route each of the others took).

Nike's transponder hasn't been working all day, so we don't know where they are on the course, but we've been told they left on the start of the MTB about 2:30pm, around an hour after Orion. Helly Hansen - who are showing on the leaderboard in 2nd place at the moment, are only a few kms away from here now, so they might be the first to arrive.

Nga Rakau definitely won't make it here by midnight, but having a sleep in transition and skipping the next kayak still seems a good plan for them.

One of the crew who was at the transition at the start of the MTB said Orion spent over an hour in the transition, most of the time studying the maps. They're obviously thinking hard about their strategy for the rest of the race...