Re: Kanavy Training & WEC Purse

["Robert Morris" <bobmorris@rmci.net>]

<<<<Also, the UAE Khaleej Times newspaper said that the purse for
>this race was 1,000,000 "dirhams."  Does anybody know what
>that is in US dollars?>>>>

By todays rate that is $US272,257 

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID
-----Original Message-----
From: lbm@ici.net <lbm@ici.net>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 5:23 PM
Subject: Kanavy Training & WEC Purse


>Just sitting here wondering about what kind of conditioning
>Jedi received to be able to carry that much speed through
>heat over the frequently deep sand course...
>
>When did the Kanavy's go over to Dubai?  Three weeks or so
>ago when the rest of the US team went, or earlier?
>
>Had Jedi ever been there before?
>
>Also, the UAE Khaleej Times newspaper said that the purse for
>this race was 1,000,000 "dirhams."  Does anybody know what
>that is in US dollars?
>
>And also, how can it be that US team riders finished 1st
>and 6th, yet do not turn up in the first three team medals?
>What happened to the rest of the team?
>
>Linda B. Merims
>lbm@ici.net
>Massachusetts, USA
>
>