We had a good training session yesterday - we walked (and even ran some downhill bits...) from Checkpoint 6 (Botolph) to Checkpoint 9 (Kingston), 30.84 km by the GPS and covered in 5hr 25 - with virtually no stops. John set a blinding pace in the horizontal rain, and without allowing for a lost 10 mins or so reconciling the differences between the map and the route description, we were doing 5.7 km/h, comfortably quicker than our planning time. That should see us beating 20hrs for the event, and if the slowest member (ie me) manages to buck up a bit, 18hrs might be on.......
When the socks came off I discovered three toes glued together with blood, just little nick from a toenail, which I only felt as a slightly sticky pad to one of my toes. 10 mins in a hotel sauna last night, a bit stiff today then a slow 3km run tonight to loosen off and I feel remarkably well, considering.
A great day out though , in spite of the weather. I know we (I) can do it now. Bring it on.
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Sorry to hear about the toes. You might want to invest in a couple of pairs of these - http://www.purekit.com/cid/LTOZTJNWL9T5HFNILB56R2VRLJ90BSYJ/injinji-toe-socks-deptsoc_inj/
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