Last morning in the desert



Above the view from our tent. Yesterday was another long day (distance wise a "mere" marathon) but we took it easy with a run before the heat built up and then walked (or hobbled) the rest of the course. They snuck in some jebels, dunes, and gorges to make it the most scenic day... to end on a high or perhaps encourage people to sign up again..?! Not for us (we agreed on that remarkably quickly!). As for us, we are looking forward to relatively easy double digit distance runs in the future - and being able to say "we shaved 5 hours off our last marathon time!"

Now gearing up for the last little push for 6km to the finish finish line, where a bus (or maybe a taxi) awaits. Then a 6h bus ride back to a shower to start some recuperation until our girls arrive on Monday. 

Thanks for all your support and donations. The daily printed out emails which were brought to our tent were such a wonderful treat - the joy reminded us of the excitement felt back in the days before email/ internet when one received a nice letter. Thank you to everyone who navigated the mds website to get those through to us!! 

Also just got our first brexit update in a week. October, eh? 

K & J 



Comments

  1. Unknown13 April 2019 at 17:53

    Well done both of you! A once in a lifetime experience completed! You should be very proud (and I am sure once the feelings of sheer relief have passed you will do)!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous15 April 2019 at 08:25

    Well done to you both! very proud of you !

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dune Day - we’re done with dunes!

Image
As expected today was a slog. After the first sandy and rocky stretch we entered Morocco's largest sand dunes. Any hopes of being able to run a bit were quickly shattered as we slowed to a crawl sinking deep as we made our way up and down the sand dunes. In case any of you were wondering: we ain't gonna win this thing..  A final 6k stretch we managed to muster some residual energy to run parts of it to finish in 6:30h today. The last two days have definitely taken their toll with four more blisters between us (three for Jan, one for Kim).  Legs are tired but aches and pains mostly in check and if how we felt this morning after a good enough night's sleep is anything to go by, we may not be exactly fresh as daisies tomorrow, but certainly cheerful and absolutely DELIGHTED that we never ever ever have to do 13km of dunes again. Ever. For us it's decided: MdS (provided we finish!) is definitely a ONCE in a lifetime thing!   T
Read more

Our MdS Epilogue

Image
So ... Two weeks ago we were at home in London, stressing about the MDS and what still needed to get done/ sorted/ organised/ weighed and established whether it was really a completely necessary item of kit to take along, together with the ever present niggle at the back of our minds on whether we had trained enough (is it ever enough) and what we should have/ could have done differently.... One week ago we were in about the middle of the long stage, at 5pm "camp time" (one hour behind Moroccan time) through the worst heat of the day, Jan soldiering on with shmangled feet - unbeknownst to us at the time, he had amassed and was walking on 15 blisters in total - 10 on one foot, five on the other. We were yet to hit the remnants of a sandstorm in the dunes - for us not as debilitating as the sandstorm that had hit the runners at the front of the pack (ie we didn't have to stop and/or huddle, merely lift the buffs to become face protectors), which would take us into su
Read more