Settling in to camp…

Settling into the most beautiful camp this evening with excited participants truly from all over the world.  As we warm up our freeze dried food, stories of jobs, spouses, children and other race experiences abound. Fascinating fascinating fascinating.  I’m hoping that pictures from today’s journey to this camp is online.  The views are truly spectacular and the ride in a white-water raft to reach the camp was an excellently planned welcome to all.  My tent of 7 is all British and friendly – a ratio of 5 men to 2 women will no doubt add to some interesting stories as well.  So looking forward to finally starting tomorrow.  It’s been a 2 year journey to this point and it seems that the last bit is taking so long.  Tomorrow us straight up the hill and then back down.  Everyone is talking about strategy and planning on much walking, especially with packs at their heaviest of the week.  I weighed in at 13.5 kg, about 28.5 pounds.  Yikes.  Steady and slow….SAS pace for me tomorrow.  Planning on enjoying the ride and saving that energy for later in the week, especially as I know understand that Thursdays long day will be 55 miles…. Time to steel myself.

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