minnie's Moroccan mega-marathon

[Unix]

Depends how well you train.

Interestingly its more a mental challenge - as Minestrone indicated. Have you ever wondered how far you can go?

Without people like MInestrone, we would still be stuck in caves.

Hats off to him - I am really pleased he came out. It was very kind of him to let me know what he was doing. A great inspiration to me - and makes my achievements look ordinary.

What has running around a desert with little food got to do with human advancement? Not sure Newton or Einstein did this, they valued their time and health and concentrated on real world problems.

[BrilloPad]

Never understood this kind of thing, keeping fit is one thing. All it does is damages the body.

Depends how well you train.

Interestingly its more a mental challenge - as Minestrone indicated. Have you ever wondered how far you can go?

Without people like MInestrone, we would still be stuck in caves.

Hats off to him - I am really pleased he came out. It was very kind of him to let me know what he was doing. A great inspiration to me - and makes my achievements look ordinary.

[Unix]

Never understood this kind of thing, keeping fit is one thing. All it does is damages the body.

[d000hg]

I think the idea is self sufficient for a week so you don't want to carry any more than 5 kg of food at the start.

I think you could get by from local wells for water so they give you about 11.5 litres a day so you are not drinking from them. 16 on the long day.

That 11.5 litres counts as "limited water" only goes further to confirm how extreme it is, I make that 17 pints!

[SueEllen]

Feeling slightly poisoned for the whole event was maybe the worst. Freeze dried granola for breakfast, freeze dried noodles at night, 2 energy bars, 5 electrolyte energy drink lemon and lime sachets and 20 salt pills. Every day.

You are really selling it....


No wonder the other people I know didn't tell the truth!

[BrilloPad]

Starting to feel somewhat inadequate in that company tbh. Cycling's easy, all you have to do is keep your feet going round and round and not fall off.

Depends what sort of distance we are going to do? Brutal deca?

[minestrone]

I think the idea is self sufficient for a week so you don't want to carry any more than 5 kg of food at the start.

I think you could get by from local wells for water so they give you about 11.5 litres a day so you are not drinking from them. 16 on the long day.

[d000hg]

Out of interest why was food and water limited? Just because it wasn't hard enough already?!

[minestrone]

Feeling slightly poisoned for the whole event was maybe the worst. Freeze dried granola for breakfast, freeze dried noodles at night, 2 energy bars, 5 electrolyte energy drink lemon and lime sachets and 20 salt pills. Every day.

[DaveB]

So looks like we have a CUK relay team. Me on the swim, daveb on the bike, minnie on the run.

Starting to feel somewhat inadequate in that company tbh. Cycling's easy, all you have to do is keep your feet going round and round and not fall off.