I spoke to Aja of the crew for Dirty Avocados II/Team #56, and Dmitri of the crew for Dirty Avocados/Team #62.

 Dirty Avocados II is still continuing unranked.  Susan is travelling with the crew and her feet are a mess.  PQ medical staff suggested that continuing could pose serious or long term problems.  Word from Aja is that Brian’s feet are also in pretty bad shape but they’re determined to press on. 

 Dirty Avocado’s is doing well.  They banked alot of sleep yesterday and are moving well.  Donato’s feet are in bad shape with large blisters on the heel.

 I am going to unable to access Internet until Saturday eventing but Aja may have web access to update this blog.

It is possible that Jen is still racing.  Word first thing this am was that the woman on team 62 was going to drop due to a feet/leg issue.  Rumors were passed along and interpreted, and assumptions were made and passed along to me.  We all know what happens when we assume…makes and a** out of you and me, in this case just me.  It’s possible that there was a mix-up or that the team stayed at the TA so long because they were getting her back to racing shape.  If I get some hard facts I will pass them along.

 Susan is out for sure.  She called a friend, beer in hand, and said she was done.  Melissa was at the table with that person and they are now shown as “Unranked” on the PQ site.

There’s not much good to tell. 

The Bad: Both DAs are unranked. 

The Ugly:  Jen of team 62 has suffered a recurrence of her IT band issue and was unable to continue early this afternoon.  I just heard that someone spoke to Susan of Team 56 and her feet were very bad and she is also unable to continue.

The Good:  Both teams are continuing on the course.

Communication on the course must be tough because both teams are still shown as ranked on the leaderboard the last time I checked.

DA II; Mike, Brian, Will, and Susan finished the trek at 8:34 pm and have just started cycling for the first time in the race.

DA/Team 62 is just about 3 1/2 miles from the end of the trek.  It’s almost all downhill (1000′) from their most recent track location.

Aja contacted me and said the teams are doing great.

Thunderstorms right over the course.  I guess it makes up for the cancellation of the river section today.  I have reports that there were trees, logs, and all other sorts of large debris being washed down the Yellowstone River today

Check out the adventure team #29 had yesterday: http://team29.ecoprimalquest.com/

DA’s on Checkpoint Zero, unfortunately:  http://www.checkpointzero.com/primalquest/

Gulnur posted her pictures from Pre-race on the DA Gallery.  Check ‘em out!

DA II (#56) is currently in 19th on the course as I count position on the “Tracker”page of the PQ site.  Team Shasta is right in front of them and they just passed Dancing Pandas.  DA (#62)  is just about three miles, and nine positions back.  There’s a whole bunch of teams on that part of the course.  Team 62 slept in the transition area before the trek while team 56 pushed through, and now they’ve been passing teams and gaining on team 62 all morning.

Nor-Cal’s own Team Bones is running in 5th.

It appears that the second paddle leg has been cancelled.  It’s been replaced by an extended bike leg.  The intended course shown on the PQ “Tracking” page was changed at about 0800 PDT today.  It appears that both DA teams are about 1/2 way through the +/- 54 mile trek.