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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: November 2013
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Monday, 18 November 2013. The Druids' Challenge - Day Three. My plan right from the start was simply to get through Day Three. Day Three was as step into the unknown. I'd done two day ultras - ok I'd done a. Going to happen, run all 28 miles? After a couple of miles not only were my legs moving, I was overtaking people! No walking, not even up hills, until the first checkpoint&...
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: MDS 2016 - Day One
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Wednesday, 27 April 2016. MDS 2016 - Day One. As you may have realised I didn't have a great Day One! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other Blogs by Me. Lake Balaton - Day Four. Please help me raise money for Cancer Research UK. MDS advice and kit. MDS 2016 - Day One. MDS 2016 - The Prologue. After the MDS I might have given up running - I havent. View my complete profile.
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: April 2014
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Tuesday, 29 April 2014. The Marathon Des Sables - Days Four and Five. With all plans in place that just left the relatively trivial exercise of running 80kms…. Despite now knowing the start routine I was as nervous at the start as I had been on Day One. We were due to start at 9 today rather than 8:30 so at 9:08 we set off. D book. This defence has to be tempered with the a...
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: April 2016
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Wednesday, 27 April 2016. MDS 2016 - Day One. As you may have realised I didn't have a great Day One! Tuesday, 26 April 2016. MDS 2016 - The Prologue. Well it would if this was the answer:. As I handed him the form. Were 'That's the second one of these I've been given'! A call on Facebook lead to Eric revealing himself (figuratively, not literally). We met for coffee and as...
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: May 2016
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Thursday, 12 May 2016. MDS 2016 - Epilogue and 'What's it like? So what went right in the 2016 MDS? If I could only use one word to describe the MDS it woud be 'big'. I know that's not very imaginative and from the previous blog entries you would probably have expected me to go for 'sand' but I'll explain. Then there is the desert itself. It swallows the bivouac, it has fla...
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: March 2014
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Thursday, 27 March 2014. Before I go any further with this blog entry I will apologise in advance if its even less coherent than usual. Hopefully you will understand that with barely a week to go until I fly to Morocco I'm a bit preoccupied at the moment! So what is there to tell about Fuerteventura? The next day was back to the dunes for the ultimate kit test! My final runs we...
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: MDS 2016 - Day Two
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Tuesday, 3 May 2016. MDS 2016 - Day Two. Anyway on to Day Two. Day Two had a fair amount of sand but we had already realised that sand was going to figure more prominently than usual in the 2016 MDS so that wasn't a surprise, however the road book suggested there was a fair amount of terrain that should be quite runnable. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other Blogs by Me.
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: January 2014
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Tuesday, 21 January 2014. The big day is getting ever closer, just over ten weeks until we fly out, spend a day standing in queues (the one part of the event the British always come first in) and then start our cruel and unusual punishment, sorry, I mean the 2014 MdS of course. So how did I get on? Well much better than I thought I would! As my loyal followers will know the nex...
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble: February 2014
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Colin's ramblings about a desert ramble. An insight into my (still deranged) mind as I prepare for the 2016 Marathon des Sables. Friday, 7 February 2014. The Pilgrims' Challenge - Day Two. We seemed well matched in pace and he also seemed to have an endless supply of glucose tablets which he kindly shared with me. At least that was what he told me they were - they certainly kept me moving. Fortunately the organisers had put plenty of signs out and so I was able to finish strongly in 6 hours 46 minutes an...