Marathon des Sables - Message from pc07 runner/du concurrent 0551

So here we are on the rest day after the long stage and man, it was LOOOONG! Jan is accumulating blisters like sand on the beach so walking (never mind running) is somewhat painful to put it mildly. Kim, it transpires, is a mutant: not a blister in sight. But we soldiered on and decided to do the long stage using the "walk of Shane" (= quick and effective shuffle-walk taught to us by our coach Shane) and took it check point by check point and on and on (and beautiful starry sky and a camel spider spotting and beginnings of sunrise later) we made it - EXHAUSTED! - in 21.5 hours. We are out of battery (so no photos this time) and also don't know when next we'll have reception but base case (Fabi, if you are reading this) should be Saturday. Tomorrow the marathon stage (LAST ONE!) which is apparently fairly tough but beautiful and again we are planning on Shan-walking the whole thing. Exhausted but happy to knock it off step by step, check point by check point, stage by stage. XX

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