October 25, 2007

NEWS FLASH

What a great day today. We traveled over 600km, which puts our average speed around 75km/hour. We’re still in 11th place with Aviva just in front. Tomorrow is looking good. We have 560 km to go. If we can keep up 75 km/h we will be there by 4pm. Forecast is favourable, but we’ll see more cloud cover as we approach the coast.

We have the U of T team not far behind us – I think only 40km. We really want to be the top placed Canadian team out of the six of us, so we’ll have to be quick and efficient tomorrow. Not much word on the rest of the Canadians but we did hear the first place team – Nuna – finished tonight. And our good friends at Stanford rolled their car today. All are ok, but they are trailering for a bit. Team is pretty shaken up after watching it.

It’s late and I need sleep. Tomorrow is a critical day. We need to make it – Saturday’s forecast has a low pressre and cold front moving in – bound to make a terrible finish day for a lot of teams.

MAP UPDATED

4 comments:

Lori Shyba said...

Good luck team. Try to stay ahead of U or T so you're the first Canadians to get across the line. I saw you arrive at Calgary last year and you're phenomenal! Don't let the low pressure zone slow you down.

Anonymous said...

Hi Team Calgary (AKA The best Canadian Team!)

It was great to hear you had such a successful day yesterday!

Thank you for sharing this 'experience of a lifetime' with us through your updates and pictures!

We wish you all the very best on the last leg of your journey into Adelaide.

You are an amazing team!

Greg & Diane Preston
(Enjoy the warm weather. We woke up to snow this morning!)

the parental units said...

Way to go Schulich 1! This is so exciting to watch this team work together on this challenge. We have shared this blog with lots of friends and family and look forward to all the new postings. And happy 21st birthday to Joshua!

Teresa said...

Following your progress, way to go Calgary
Congratulations!!!!!! It is now very early friday morning and I am glued to updates. So excited for you all