[Posted by Chris]
Day 3 done and we're allegedly halfway in km. Yay! However, I've discovered doing things by km (as I usually do) is flawed. Terrain is all & it might take 30 min to do 1km. I now realise my training should have involved gluing many irregular brick-sized stones to the treadmill & a lot more sand.
There are a few things that I know scare me: spiders, strangers, the cold, gore... but there are 2 words that appear in our routebook which now take position number 1:
"sandy ascent"
After a flat slog in strangely cloudy conditions for 2 hrs we returned to proper MdS & a lot of sand. It also warmed up - even I was struggling when it hit 37C on one long sandbank, a wind-sheltered one too.
Because we start in the morning, Simon & I feel it the most as we finish neither before nor after the worst heat. That said JPD & even Neil are flagging too.
Finally: the French. Bureaucracy, unnecessary queuing in sun, endless briefings & unequal treatment of Brits. But at least the girls are fit...
Day 3 done and we're allegedly halfway in km. Yay! However, I've discovered doing things by km (as I usually do) is flawed. Terrain is all & it might take 30 min to do 1km. I now realise my training should have involved gluing many irregular brick-sized stones to the treadmill & a lot more sand.
There are a few things that I know scare me: spiders, strangers, the cold, gore... but there are 2 words that appear in our routebook which now take position number 1:
"sandy ascent"
After a flat slog in strangely cloudy conditions for 2 hrs we returned to proper MdS & a lot of sand. It also warmed up - even I was struggling when it hit 37C on one long sandbank, a wind-sheltered one too.
Because we start in the morning, Simon & I feel it the most as we finish neither before nor after the worst heat. That said JPD & even Neil are flagging too.
Finally: the French. Bureaucracy, unnecessary queuing in sun, endless briefings & unequal treatment of Brits. But at least the girls are fit...
Looking at the ratio of men to girls, I presume that`s another queue?
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