Go run already..!





Almost there. At the start line that is.. 

So today was spent mostly "free at leisure" but, significantly, gave us a chance for "final mental prep". 

Without having to worry about mileage, we got to experience camp life, got a feel for the desert, really got the feel of the temperature changes throughout the day and back into the evening, got a thorough pre-race briefing... and, well, tomorrow morning is IT! 

One little funny: so the "real" time in Morocco is the same time as British summer time....but "camp" (and therefore ALL start times etc) are one hour behind the real time so we are doing this event in a virtual time zone. Nope, nobody knows why, it's just the way it is.... means on the one hand we sleep an hour longer...but we also spend an hour more in the sun. Oh well. It's all pretty surreal so this is part of it.

We've bumped into/ met some random people... so our good friend Tanja (fellow German living in London) has another friend - Dirk - doing the event and told him to come find us (amongst 800 or so competitors) in the UK contingent (about 250 of which are from the UK...). So he asks around the 4 or so German tents if anyone knows a Jan and Kim perhaps ...and it turns out one Paul (fellow German studying in oxford) actually met us earlier today and we got chatting so he sent Dirk over er voila! Tanja, if you're reading this: wir haben uns gefunden! 

Another random was a friend of friends of yesteryear who is a Facebook connection and lives in Singapore who randomly sat down at our table for dinner - I thought it miiiight be her (buffs over heads can distort the perfect Facebook features at times..!) and so it was and dinner was wonderfully lively and chatty as a result (thank you Facebook, for the heads-up, and best of luck Danielle Benson!!! 

And that's it. We may not be as prolific in the coming days but do check in from time to time....the blog does not want to get to lonely. 

XXX

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