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Goto: 2004-11-04 2004-11-06 Australia

2004-11-05:
Distance today: 65.0 km (Accumulated: 13627.0 km)
Country: Australia

2004.11.05. -
South corner of roundabout >.

(Media at finish).

65km, =7h of traffic lights>. Excl. food, water, road-finding, toilet etc. stops.
Total 13586km. (J.).

(Crew: Anni & Bob Fickel, all stage).

Start 08:11am.
Finish 15:43pm.
Time GMT + 8 hours

+18c, rain and medium wind at start.
21c, clouds and same wind at finish.

Another of the lighter stages!

- My route-advisor for Australia, Vice-president Phil Essam of the
Australian Ultra runner Association, had set a quite demanding but also
interesting course the first days. But luckily not too demanding!

Having by now a bit heavy legs due to the 13 000km of running which lies
behind, I am quite happy to have got through the three days of 85km to
94km fairly well.

Still this shouldn?t be expected to impress Australian ultra runners -
Australia is home to some of the most endurable multi day runners on world
level; among them 'the golden Greek' Kourous who holds several world
records.

.. Yes :-) I am indeed not out here to impress; not myself or any other
runner. My aim is the experience itself, to go where no one has gone
before; with the aim of the adventurer rather than that of the competition
runner that I have been for so many years.

To me, running a documented lap around the world has much of the
characteristics of the adventurer challenges back in history:
-the race to the North Pole, the South Pole, the conquering of the highest
mountains, the first crossing of the oceans.

- The only thing about me as a runner is that I have had a fairly lucky
hand (leg :-) at overcoming the Scandinavian winter, the endlessness of
Siberia & the typhoon of Japan without breaking the run onwards.

Whether this luck will follow me into the Nullabor desert remain for me to
hope :-)

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