Gobi March 2008: Daily Blog Posts

After 3 days of eating and eating, we finally stood at the start line for the start at 915am. My strategy? Run when I could and walk when I need to.

The first 10k went quite well as we crossed the same d*** river countless times. Thank goodness the dry and hot weather dried the shoes out in no time. Checkpoints 1 and 2 went by pretty quickly but enroute checkpoint 3, the same weather turned on us. The mercilesss sun beamed relentlessly on us and only the passing clouds bought temporary respite…