Day two of the Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge saw team SOLE speeding along with the front of the peleton. Though athlete Paul Romero managed not to hit any animals today, he came close when a pack of wild game animals here on Sir Bani Yas Island shot across the road in front of the front-of-the-pack teams. In the end, the animals were to fast for the mountain bike riders.

The pace of today's bike ride was unusually fast for an adventure race, team member Karen Lundgren said. "I was riding as fast as I could go the entire time," she added. Well, maybe not the entire time. At one point, when she was on tow behind teammte Andre Gie, the tow line snapped off her bike and was instantly swallowed up by Gie's rear sprocket set.

Some time was lost as Gie extracted remnants of the destroyed tow line from his bike, but the team was soon at it again, fast and furious to the finish.