Thule Adventure Team in the lead of the prestigious Baise Outdoor Quest 2012, China

The first day began with a fast running stage in the central parts of host city Baise, there were some obstacles created along the course that all teams were required to manage. We had lost about 30 sec on team Redbull & Kolumb who sprinted in a very high pace, but decided to stick to our original plan by sticking to the pace plan for this stage.

At the transition to mtb we came up with the leading teams. We left the transition with team Peak from Australia and team Kolumb from China. We were clearly the strongest team and could get up in front and stretch out the lead to the other teams.

Our lead was 8min at the next transition, which where mountain trail running course which ended up in a 2km long cave. It is a very warm weather in this region of China at the moment, so it was nice to get inside the cool cave.

After the cave we abseiled 80 meter down to another cave and did a short sprint to the finish line.

Tomorrow (Friday 27^th April) will be a hard day with:
1. Swimming 500meters
2. Kayak 12km (estimated fastest time 90min)
3. MTB 32km with an elevation of 2500meter (estimated fastest time 150min)
4. Rest 15min
5. Stair running 7.5km (estimated fastest time 80min)
6. Adventure skills (estimated fastest time 10min)
7. Running 2.5km.

The results from day 1:
1. Thule Adventure Team, Sweden
2. Team XX, China, +10min
3. Team Kolumb, China +12min
4. Team Peak, Australia, +15min
5. Team Chapionsystem, HongKong, +32min
6. Team Redbull, Asia International, +45min
7. Team Multisport.fi, Finland, +1.02h