minnie's Moroccan mega-marathon

[BrilloPad]

I thought you were a faggoty fag, but if your toenails all fell off, and you kept going, that makes you an ok bloke in my book

Toenails falling off don't hurt. Have you seen those blisters though! OMG

[MarillionFan]

that is why I am going back.

Me me me.

I expected more from you.

[minestrone]

Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

that is why I am going back.

[EternalOptimist]

P.S. MS

my daughter did the Peruvian hike this September
the next week we were all in Harris and she put her two big toenails on the ironing board.

One of the 'so-called' tough guys went to the bog to chuck up

[EternalOptimist]

I thought you were a faggoty fag, but if your toenails all fell off, and you kept going, that makes you an ok bloke in my book

[minestrone]

Before I bore anyone else to tears with race chat this was pretty funny.

You are able to send runners messages during the race and then the dossards (general staff of the race) will print them out and bring then to your tent the next day.

Chap in our tent dropped out on day 2, a previous MDS finisher and a Boston marathon finisher so a runner of some ability. I don't know why he dropped out but I was told he had a bleeding scrotum, anyway, here is what someone wrote to him, I have redacted various passages to protect everyone's identity.

[minestrone]

I have already lost most of my toenails - several times - so no problem there.

Do you have to carry your own blister kit?

The medics will sort you out but it is better if you can deal with your blisters when you get back to your tent after the days running. Else you have to get back up and head to the blister tent which isn't fun. Scalpel, syringe and iodine.

I had to cut into the big blister with a penknife to drain the fluid and by day 3 it was infected. The pain was brutal. Googling "marathon de sable feet" is not recommended if you are squeamish.

[BrilloPad]

The morning ritual of trying to get the feet in some way capable of another day running, feet on day 3,

( those toenails all fell off )

I have already lost most of my toenails - several times - so no problem there.

Do you have to carry your own blister kit?

[norrahe]

So the plan is I get a couple of buckets of sharp stones and 6 months before the race I put on some disco and jump up in down in them for 10 minutes a day.

In a sauna of course.

[minestrone]

So the plan is I get a couple of buckets of sharp stones and 6 months before the race I put on some disco and jump up in down in them for 10 minutes a day.