....My group consists of 4 lads from Edinburgh (all ex-army who are now armed-response policemen - Coops, Steve, Roddy and Neil), Lucy (who owns a coffe shop in Glasgow and who sort of knew Steve), Andy (a stockbroker from Edinburgh who sort of knew Lucy) and Dave (a Brit who is currently a mountain guide in Egypt and just happened to be sitting next to Andy on the flight)..... We have already become a very tight group and have an amazing cameraderie which has made the last few days a lot more entertaining than they would otherwise have been!
On arrival in Ouarzazete we quickly learnt the usefulness of staying together and being first for everything, as we were able to jump on the first bus and be first in the lonnnnnnng queue for our rooms for the night at the Berber Palace Hotel...
Friday morning our gang was outside the hotel ready to jump on the first coach.. It was raining. All day- it rained. And rained. 8 hours later we arrived at the side of the road where there were a bunch of land cruisers waiting for us. At this stage we had accepted we were going to get wet..
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Saturday - An announcement was made that we were staying at an hotel in Erfoud another night and at the time there was no further news. The 8 of us were camping out in 2 rooms, having a lot of laughs. It was still raining. Later found out that Stage 1 had been cancelled. Nearly mutiny from all competitors... Talk in the ranks of doing our own unofficial 30k to make up the distance.
It is now Sunday eve and we have completed the med and technical checks. Race starts tomorrow.
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