David Coats » Lanka Challenge http://davidcoats.co.uk Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:17:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lanka Challenge Day 2: Dambulla to Beligela http://davidcoats.co.uk/lanka-challenge-day-2-dambulla-to-beligela/2009/09/08/ http://davidcoats.co.uk/lanka-challenge-day-2-dambulla-to-beligela/2009/09/08/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:18:17 +0000 David http://davidcoats.co.uk/?p=1345 This was billed as the hardest day of the tuk-tuk race – 192km across some harsh off-road terrain, plus a few tricky challenges. I again awoke at 6am for our briefing session to be greeted with the news that there had been an accident in the night. Two guys had given a local journalist a lift back to a nearby village in the pitch darkness and flipped the Tuk Tuk. As I said in the previous post, driving at night is crazy. The roads are covered in potholes and have no lights. The female journalist was taken to hospital suffering a large gash in her foot (apparently her tendons were sticking out which made the nurses gasp with horror!)

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