Several of you have asked how you can follow our progress during the race. Firstly, we hope to be able to update this blog from the desert - at each overnight camp, there will be a communications tent from where (in theory) we are each allowed to send one email per day, though it's possible the queues will be prohibitive.
Another way to track our progress is via the organisers' website: http://www.darbaroud.com/en/. This should have provisional stage results each day from Sunday and might even have some live GPS timing this year. There will also be information on the British team's website: http://www.marathondessables.co.uk/.
And of course there's our sponsorship page at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/SaharanPrints. Once again, thank you so much to everyone that has donated. We're already well on the way to our target of £10,000, but it would be fantastic to raise much more than that.
We fly from Gatwick at lunchtime today (Thursday) and will be transferred to the desert by truck tomorrow morning. We'll then have Friday night and all of Saturday in the first desert camp or 'bivouac' to get used to the terrain and the camping arrangements, to try out any last-minute kit acquisitions and to experience the heat of the day and the cold of the night before starting the race on Sunday morning. This gives us one last opportunity to make final kit decisions, since we can hand back a 'spares' bag on Saturday afternoon to be taken into storage for us. After that, we'll be on our own to survive for a week with whatever's in our packs and (other than water) nothing else.
At 3am last night we were all still packing and JPD was baking his breakfast flapjacks for the race... fortunately, apart from my needing a haircut, I think we're almost there now.
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