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Distance today: 32.0 km (Accumulated: 11662.0 km) Country: Russia 2004 09 18. Route Report: 32km, 3:01:24 h (J.). Excl. food, water, toilet etc. stop. Total 11.621km. (J.). Start 9:36am (all), Finish 12:44 (J.), 14:05 (K.), 14:07 (A.). Time GMT + 10 hours. +8c, overcast and light wind at start. 11c and same at finish. Finally a short stage :-)) It?s been a while since last as we first from now on begin to reach more populated area and thus can put in a 'breathing space' once in a while. About the landscape we now run in an old volcanic landscape with many small hills and a brown-black soil rich on pumice. Since mid-stage we have been running in "The Jewish Autonomous Republic of Russia": It was founded in 1927 during the USSR times to motivate Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union to settle in the by that time virtually unpopulated area of East-East Siberia. However there were reasons as to why no one had claimed the soil. Besides no infrastructure it met its new settlers with mosquitoes in vast amounts during the short summer, and winter.. the usual Siberian 'chill chamber' of -50c and below that made Sibiberian popular as prisoner camp (The Gulags). Thus it newer became a great hit with the soviet Jews - or any other. Right now, with the autumn leaves turning all shades of yellow, dark green and orange; with a tarmac road in the process of being built, small villages in the evening sun - it don?t look so bad a place at all ... ! |
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