It is a cool, quiet morning on the Canadian prairie, and there is strange unbroken shade of pale blue from horizon to horizon. No one seems to know what to make of it.

At least one Miner nearly came jumped of his sleeping bag when a freight train rolled by at 2:00 in the morning. We promise you, when a train roars by just 50 yards away, it sure feels a LOT closer in the dark.

The Miners will head back toward Regina a few miles, set up the car and charge exactly where they stopped last night. They should be through Regina's check point shortly after nine, past Moose Jaw by early afternoon, and into Medicine Hat, the race's final stage point by suppertime. If they don't make that they'll have to trailer in to participate in tomorrow's last stage start, and it probably won't be until then that we'll know what the race standings are. We hope the final standings will have S&T at the head of the middle pack, but there us no way to tell at this point. We are sorry to report that Principia's amazing run at race leader Michigan will probably fall short, as Ra VII is reported to be 60 miles farther east than S&T. Principia has run a very clean and organized race, and should be considered the event's best performing team, in our opinion.

Just so we don't forget, we want to recognize the contributions of Jennifer Claybrooks of Mizzou's Hydrogen Car Project. The Tigers' demonstration car was one of several that didn't manage to qualify for this tremendous race, so she joined the Miners and proved a ray of sunshine when it was most needed.

Lastly, we thought we'd post a photo of Jennifer, because without her help.............