Race Day 5
Distance: 0km
Time : 0 hr
Water : 4.5 litres
Temperature : 46.7ºC
Today we have earned a rest .. reward for finishing the double leg in one hit.
For the sleepers, the injured, the struggling-to-finish, our leisure time is time on their feet.
They stagger in throughout the day. All laden heavily with 4.5 litres of the heaviest water they will ever carry .. given just a hundred metres from home it is nearly the feather to break all backs.
But they are ahead of “les chameaux”, a must to stay in the race, as you cannot fall behind the two camels and their blue men who are the MdS sweeper van.
By 2pm (14 hours after we fell into bed) the last finisher comes home ..
Hours for us spent treating blisters, pottering, visiting have been hours fought on the course by these brave soldiers.
The whole race drags to the finish to cheer them home.
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