Team Nomad readies for New Zealand Departure

Megan Gridley joins Scott Berk, Scott Cole, and Grant Sisler in final preparations for 2003 Southern Traverse

(10.18.03) San Francisco & Boston -- Megan Gridley, an ironman qualifier and competitive road runner, has officially joined Team Nomad for the Southern Traverse on the Otago Peninsula in Southeast New Zealand. Gridley and Sisler will put together a final week of training in the Bay Area, while Berk and Cole finalize team logistics. A few days before Halloween, Nomad will depart the northern hemisphere and roundezvous in Christchurch, pick up the support van, and begin the week long task of time-zone adjustment and field reconnaissance. Nomad hopes to lessen their out-of-town disadvantage by scanning the penguin-filled coastline and tussock-filled grasslands of the Otago region prior to game-time.

Stay tuned as Nomad posts pre-race reconnaissance reports on our website