The 2010 edition of XPD is now underway with teams spending the initial stages of the race offshore from Cairns at Dunk Island (where they did take a dunk and do some snorkelling).
Latest reports seem to have Orionhealth.com close to or in the lead but information from the course has so far been infrequent and very brief so details are hard to come by.
There seems to be a group of teams quite closely bunched in these early stages with another all New Zealand team (alpineepic.co.nz) alongside Orionhealth.com in the top five. Antoher New Zealander (Nathan Petersen) is racing with the strong Merrell/Alkali team. Australian team Blackheart.com are traditionally very strong in this race and are once again up there with the leaders.
I will do my best to keep the blog updated with news (and my interpretation of it) ... hopefully more news will start to come in as the race progresses.
Stu and Fi will also be providing news and insight during the night shift (see article following)
(Left to right: Brent, Carl, Fleur, Marcel)
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