Pre-race day

Friends

Just gone through race briefing, gear check and collected race notes. When she looked at my food to check if I was carrying my mandatory 14,000 calories she shook her head. Judging from the big pile she didn't have to calculate....

Will go through race notes in the next 3 hour bus ride to camp but quickly noted lots of hills. 8am start tomorrow! So excited.

Please remember to visit the race website 4deserts.com where you can follow the race, they've got great multi media and you can leave much needed competitor messages there. Quick and easy to do.

We're 150 of us, all ready to finish on the 2nd July. Such a unique mix of people...a pastor, a father with his 2 sons, full time mums, quite a few entrepreneurs, army boys, a former Ozzie National rower, a pro boxer, mountaineers who have done 7 summits, students, my tent mate Jeahong who has done 70 marathons and 50 ultra's. Quite a few cancer survivors. Then a large group of novice and inexperienced. So many great conversations out there.

Tune into Virgin Radio 104.4 at 4.15pm for daily live interviews with Brent Black. Already enjoying the celeb status...

Next post will be from camp tomorrow night after the first stage. Posting from a satellite fed Cyber cafe.

Wk.

Note: All images by Dale de la Rey for Racing the Planet