hour 7

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small country update!

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while the big countries are going to be many hours reaching the significant action,

the small countries have team members who have never done 24 hours.

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if you want to follow the action,

you can go to backyardultra.com and click on leaderboard.

if you look at the top left you will see a tab for the small leaderboard.

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austria, vietnam, and iceland are all among the fastest teams overall,

which may, or may not, be a good thing.

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10 of the 18 small teams started with a full roster.

ukraine and singapore are behind on reporting,

but the other 8 (austria, vietnam, iceland, mauritius, india, malta, switzerland, and morocco are all intact after 6 hours.

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i know from talking to them over these past months

that all of them are dreaming of accomplishing big things.

even the countries who did not end up with a full roster are shooting for numerous personal bests, and definitely a national record.

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i just heard an interview with the malta team manager on the real broadcast (not the spammer version that wants a credit card) that was very good.

the small country competition will be heating up soon,

as many teams have runners with bests in the 8 hour range.

i will be following that closely.