Team Helly Hansen/MOMAR (l-r), Mark Fearman, Gary Robbins, Nick Bladen, and Megan Rose (photo by Wouter Kingman)

I totally forgot that Austrailia is a day ahead of us and that the 800km XPD Expedition Race has already started! I just checked the leaderboard and Team Helly Hansen/MOMAR is doing really well and is sitting in 7th place after two stages.

The team is made up of Gary Robbins, Megan Rose, Mark Fearman, and Nick Bladen. Nick raced all the MOMARs in 2006 with Team Giddy Up and they placed 1st in their category a few times. Mark raced with Gary at the MOMARs and at Utah’s Primal Quest. He moved to Oz last year. Megan just moved back to Oz a month ago. This is one fast team! But without Todd Nowack, my question is who’s navigating?

Also racing in the XPD is Jen Segger-Gigg with her DART-nuun team and Jim Mandelli with Canada Post.

The first stage of the XPD required teams to rogaine through a series of CPs out on the open water. It looks super cool–just take a look at the map. Keep checking the MOMAR Blog for regular updates this week.

Go TEAM go!!!