This is a 10.2km leg. Things are starting to get serious and the better teams should start thinking about breaking out their better runners.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 24, 2004

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There is a bit of twilight in the sky now as they begin the leg.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 24, 2004.

I shall bow out for a while to see to some dinner. I think these guys can run without me for a ways, they're big boys after all!

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 24, 2004.

I've just got back home after mapping and running. And getting snowed on, too!

-- Swampfox (wmikell@earthlink.net), April 24, 2004.

We're watching a radio control in the middle of a large felled area for those who would chase Halden. Tore Sandvik will take over on the 9th leg.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 24, 2004.

TP was 14:29 back at the Forevarning, the Sodertaelje another 14 seconds after that. They're getting split apart better than when I left the action. 4th we see K.R. after another 0.5 minute gap. The light is dim, but it's much different watching now and seeing far into the terrain.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 24, 2004.

Goteborg-Majorna 16:37 back, Kristiansand 16:54 efter, a bigger gap now...

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 24, 2004.

DELTA, Goteborg, Turun Met. round out the top 9 at the forevarning. The splits between the top 9 are all 10+ seconds.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 24, 2004.

At the exchange, Jani Lakanen moved DELTA up into 7th with a fast leg. Meanwhile IFK Goteborg dropped back with a less than stellar run by Martin Larsson.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 24, 2004.