And they are off!

Official race start time was 7:55am. The canoe cutoff and race cutoff will be pushed back 25 minutes.

Additionally, the 8- and 12-hour teams were started at CP7 of the 24-Hour course.

I've heard that instead of attacking orienteering leg w/ CP1-CP7, many of the 8- and 12-hour teams have elected to just start paddling, no doubt to get to the bike portions of the course as soon as possible.