tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44374399207870375372024-03-14T03:32:13.775+03:00Hurt2Help MdS 2008 for Facing AfricaAs the first challenge in our "hurt2help", not-for-profit fundraising scheme we have now run & loved the 23rd Marathon des Sables, Morocco March/April 2008.
We are Gav and Shelley Phillips.
This site is a record of our 2008 race blog.
Welcome!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437439920787037537.post-49575935271350985572008-04-08T19:47:00.000+03:002012-11-25T21:07:36.115+03:00Marathon des Sables 28 March - 7 April 2008 <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">ACDC</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">A</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">drenalin pumping starts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Patrick and Sarah on jeep top</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Helicopter side sweeping photo op’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Erg = sand mountain?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">The family at each check point</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Crying over the first night delivery of emails</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Sleeping through sandstorms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Waking with sand crunching in my mouth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Sand. Sand. Sand. Sand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Learning RAF dirty ditties</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Singing .. loudly ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Laughing .. constantly ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Team Go .. go .. ?? .. go ……………GO! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Socially acceptable “pishing”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">A general relaxation with regard to most bodily functions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Being so filthy it’s liberating</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Savouring 1 nut and 1 jelly bean and being satisfied by them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Planning extravagant post-race menus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Plush velvet blue night skies with diamond bright stars as my bedtime canopy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Snoring in the night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Sleeping through snoring in the night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Farmer Dave, Tent 82’s 5.30am alarm call</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Hunter gathering</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Sharing everything</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Berbere blue men breaking camp before the sand gritty sleep is from your eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">The daily M*A*S*H* at Doc Trotters .. blisters slashed and iodined</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Blue plastic slippers & "Dawn of the Dead" movement about camp</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <a href="http://www.runforwater.com/" title="Check out Ange's charity too"> </a></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.runforwater.com/" title="Check out Ange's charity too">“Super M*A*S*H*er” Ange</a>: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">always happy to apply the pain I couldn’t myself .. thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Opera in the desert snuggling with my boy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Last night sadness .. over too soon ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Loving all Tent 82!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Meeting Rory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Meeting our sweet marine docs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">The finishing chute</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Smiling so wide my face hurt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Tears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Immersed in the brilliantly star strewn balmy night.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Race
Day 4/5 - Long Stage</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Distance: </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">75.5km</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time :
</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15 hr 23 </span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Water : </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19.5 litres</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Temperature
: </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">47</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ºC</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is it!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can’t wait
to get started. Can’t wait for dark! Can’t wait for the zylooms to come out!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And .. we
are now officially Team Go!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We belly laugh, sing, swear and
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5/5. That's 5 minutes run/5 minutes yomping, power walk.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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this cracking pace at obstacles e.g. Something like El Oftal jebel, with a 25%
average incline, would be considered an obstacle .. and also a good place to
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dirty ditties the day and the check points just fly past.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the
way to make up real time .. we are on fire ..</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then the lights go out ..
in all ways .. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Between the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In a
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hangs thickly in the air. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Keep going.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Team Go.
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<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437439920787037537.post-89986215406946699942008-04-01T22:28:00.000+03:002012-11-27T22:29:18.480+03:00Oued El Jdaid - Ba Hallou 1 April 2008<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another fabulously colourful
start!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Team Go is
born as we collect Des to run with us today. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We grow from 2-ship to
3-ship & our new addition is bursting with energy as we hit the 20km
stretch of dunes in today’s vicious leg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This stage is a “tree shaker”
as we lose the weaker apples before tomorrow’s double stage .. 31 “concurrents
abandonee”/could not carry on today .. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tomorrow, as
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as Patrick
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lovely Tent 82 Scottish lassie, Elaine, is also one of the fallen. The heat and
dunes fairly cook her and by CP2 she is air lifted off the course and fed 6
drips to rehydrate before they let her home to us!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Watch out 115, 116, 117 ..
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Racing
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter my competitive spirit. Exit all
fear. </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With my boys
at my side we hiked the pace and I ended up taking 3 girls on the way in that
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gotta love a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jen you
would be proud of my tactics: show them a clean set of heels, break their
spirit and keep on going.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Distance: </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">38km</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time :
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Water : </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12 litres</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With little wind it’s a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Though
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some eating
(about 1 kg in food a day, my toss out and much less sand) means we do the same
time as yesterday over the 38km course.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Steady,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Home to Tent 82 and some slash
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Race
Day 1</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Distance: </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">31.6km</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time :
</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6 hr 55 </span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Water : </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12 litres</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Temperature
: </span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">36.8</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ºC</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our first 5.30am start (thanks
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> As
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Phew!
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And what a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not usually
an ACDC fan I am thrilled to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvr0N3FHDzI&feature=related" target="_blank">hear theboys rocking it</a><span id="goog_275728458"></span><span id="goog_275728459"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a> as we line up dancing and bouncing at the start.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Nearly
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The sound of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kisses. Good luck. Excited
tears. And the bubbling thrill of it all only grows as we are counted down .. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dix ..
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Goooo!!
Allez!</span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bodies.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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(dune) mountains. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Too late to
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tomorrow
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Days
highlight? </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chatting and
trudging with <a href="http://www.marathondessables.com/archives/uk/html/mds/26mds/portraits/uk_26mds_portraits_d705.php" target="_blank">The British Bulldog</a>. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Union Jack clad, shining
light of a man is Rory Coleman. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His quiet
assurance and solid advice sets us straight from the start: take it easy today.
He passes on advice direct from Patrick who had warned against over-doing Etape
1.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the
hardest first stage ever for the MdS and only the start of a long, long week.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today is a
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So with his
lovely union jack flying high as my talisman I tick heavily on. I know if I can
keep him in sight all will be well. All will be well.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We do just
that and with drained legs, rubbing toes and a general feeling of “phew” from
me we arrive at our first hand holding finish. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yeah ..
l’Arrivee .. Bivouac 2!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, to
empty every single item I do not need from my pack .. sorry whizplus you are
dumped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most of the day is spent
fiddling with packs. Unfortunately I <b>didn’t
</b>resist the urge to throw in some last minute non-essentials .. I would
regret that tomorrow on the slopes of Merzouga
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And we
haven’t even seen the triple lap exhibition dash ye</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">t!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
Aussie flag up we are attracting visitors already! Trent, Steven, Van, Pete,
Prince Wills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">With 24 other Australians in the race we are only one of the
32 nationalities represented here.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Tabuk 5 are immediately comfortable playing pigs
starting the fun we will have all week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Brit journo, </span><a href="http://www.junglemoon.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana;" target="_blank">MarkGillett</a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> drops by for a chat and hands off some easy encouragement. How
right he was when he said we would enjoy the starts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Tous va bien en Tente 82.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Our first taste of this warmly personal, almost loving race.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 7.5pt; font-style: italic;">(Dinner tonight with red wine! A boon for Des who happily collects the
spares.)</span></div>
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