Photos

Apologies for the delaying in adding pictures to the blog, but here you go! Note if you have seen them on facebook they are the same,,,,

  JPD on top of a small rise near the camp Day -1

 The camp with Neil and JPD packing/unpacking (again)

 Ready to go at the start on day 1

 First few km were like this - lots of people with the hard sand being broken up by 1000 pairs of feet

 First minor climb at about 5km

 Day 2 was a day of ups and downs - you can see the ant trail climbing the hill and moving along the top

 The final hill of the day - half the climb is on the sand, half on rock aiming for the top of the sand...

 In the tent - tired but happy!

 Day 3 - the ant train decending the hill and going along the long flat

 End of day 3 had 2km of dunes

 Start of day 4 (the long one!) was flat for 12km

 before climbing up to this pass

 and then down into this dune valley

 Feet repaired on the day off ready for the marathon

 More packing and unpacking - fortunately each morning the Berbers took the tent away to help make sure we didn't leave anything behind

 Plenty of dunes in the marathon stage (very hot too!)

 Coming down towards the finish - a small town with the huge dunes (which we climbed for the charity stage) in the background

 All over and 7km charity stage to go - JPD staring into space thinking about 'next time' and whether a 'BPBC team could make the podium'

 Arty pics at the start

 Neil as close to runner no 1 as he has been all week!

 Me ahead of JPD for the first time all week!

 FUN!