Stage 2 - 38 kms

Day two started out with all competitors forming # 23 for the sweeping helicopters above. A little quicker off the line today with only small sand dunes in sight in the distance. The first check point was 14km away and although hard was done at decent speed. The next stage was real tough with temps reaching 46 degrees across salt flats! Along the way I started to notice some blisters though these are not so bad compared to others in camp. I met Paulo from Italia along the way and managed to chat in broken Italian English for some time which was great. After struggling through to checkpoint 3 we were faced with a 300m mountain climb before the final 5km stretch which lasted forever. It is great to have completed day 2 and although really exhausted I am doing fine and taking it easy so as to survive the 245.3km. Thank you so much to those sending email messages of support as they really mean the world to me & keep me going at the end of the day! Day 3 will be more than 40km tomorrow.

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