Team OrionHealth Adventure

Thanks for allowing me to spend the last 6 days sitting at my desk, at work, here in Athens, GA following every inch of the race...  it has made my week go by so fast! Congratualtions on a well deserved win! All of my co-workers got hooked too...  don't tell the Governor!

Enjoy your success!  Cheers to many more victories!

Just so so special

but what a lot of nail biting for us at home

Congratulations to you four top guys

We went to bed with the laptop last night to keep up with the progress. And what a night it was. You seemed to be going a bit too far south, then correcting, but then turning west to the 'railroad buttes' a mean looking steep range. Could you find a way through there in the dark. No! We could see ways through, which other teams later took. Shame we couldn't call you. So you backtracked. Probably to the latest point where you knew exactly where you were. Or did you? Then a surprise turn to the south. Checking out the options that looked like a good move. You were on what looked like an easy track heading for a clear way out of trouble. Then stopped. And back-tracked again for a huge distance to finally get back on the right track. Did you waste too much energy? Did you know, that you were still leading? Did you have any physical problems? We did not know. During our breakfast we saw you moving again in the right direction. At work now, I see you got to the last checkpoint. Should be easy from here, but you never know. Well done and good luck for the last bit... Awesome to keep your cool and finish it off. We got the bug again to race another XPD after following this.

Roel

Terrific work guys, hope the last bike goes well.

rebecca, john and cameron 

can't wait to see u guys on WMQ.

hey guys, u four r doing so well.

great support!!!

What a race! Leaders from the word GO! Look after yourselves and enjoy the final bike ride to VICTORY!!

You guys are doing so well!

Go,go,go!

Reading all the coverage of the race makes me wanna go out and race :-)

I am sitting here with Nathan F. and we are pondering,itching,...retired AR racers becoming keen...hee,hee,...would love to see your tired smiling faces.

Best wishes,Marcel. 

You four are going really well. Must be the birthday champagne!

Great support crew too.

Our geography improves with every race.

Still mopping up the bath water at home.

Hey there, keep up the pace Team Orion, looks like you are charging.

Happy Birthday to Stu for yesterday too.

All the best from the R&R crew

Stu,

Stu have a great day, we think Wayne and Brent should carry some of your gear for a few hours and maybe Anna give you a short tow. For your birthday we have 1 transition foot bath/wash/rub and a piece of that bacon and egg pie the next time we are crew. Just the thought of that should get you to the end of PQ. We are really rooting for your guys. Go team orion.

Stuart,

Have a fantastic birthday. All the best to you and the team. Lots of love Rebecca, John and from your youngest supporter, Cameron. 

For those who don't know, its Stu's birthday today (Saturday 15th!!) - hard to think of a more unlikely way of celebrating it than being out on the bike with your smelly team-mates - footsore, sleep-deprived and hungry...hope the team packed you a cake Stu!!

Keep posting those messages, Wayne's lovely wife Lynne will be checking and updating the website throughout the race, so might even be able to pass on your 'go fast' wishes to the team out on the course somewhere!

Ciao,

Fi

Hi from NZ.

Cool website! Great to hear about all your adventures. Show them what's what over there!