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Date Posted: 17:42:30 07/30/06 Sun
Author: Tom Bert & Bast
Subject: We�ve Done It

Well as the note below suggests below WE�VE DONE IT. This has honestly been the most difficult yet amazing experience of our lives.
To give you a little bit of an update from our last mail. Thursday saw us taking on our most challenging stage, 50 miles, having already completed 101 miles in the previous 4 days it wasn�t going to be fun!!
We�d had a rough night before hand as tempertures dipped to minus 7, a temperature you try not to sleep for fear of not waking up!!
After apprx 30 km I hammered my to against a very large piece of salt flat! This proved to be a rather painful injury. I had to get it lanced and drained of fluid at 40km mark with a further 35 km left. Bert had kill pains shooting down his leg which came in very intense waves. Bast was also having knee and blister trouble.
We crossed the finished line after 14 hrs, very tired and most of us in alot of pain.
We had a rest day friday again more drilling on the toe nail to drain the fluid and get it fixed for what is known as the "Glory March" (the final 10 km push for the to the finish on saturday). After a relaxing day we endured another night of freezing temperatures before heading off on our final quest.
The finish was epic, we sprinted into the main square with bands playing and greeted with pizza and beers...food and drink never tasted so good.

We have all thoroughly enjoyed the experience but by no means would recommend it to anyone...at this stage!

We�re still nursing injuries and am sure will continue to do so for some time.
We�ll update more later.

Many thanks to all those who�ve posted & sent us messages they have been truely fantastic and so uplifting.

All our best

TOM BERT & BAST

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Re: We�ve Done It -- Jenny Wood-Hill, 03:08:29 07/31/06 Mon
Re: We�ve Done It -- Christine (JOYFUL), 06:20:41 07/31/06 Mon