After a romantic night under the stars, or rather under the clouds, the longest of the 5 days began with a woodland walk and a mere 2000ft ascent!!!!! This was nicely interrupted by a broken bridge over a swollen river.
25% of walkers (i.e. Greg and the Romainian) found the rocks a little unsteady and thought they'd include a little watersport activity on their way. Not ideal, with 28 miles still to go! Strats shortly after got shot by an ankle sniper but MAN'D UP and soldiered on. The ascent began in rain designed for fish and wind only produced by Petley after a night on the curry! 4.5 hours later post descent and another river crossing, we were 9 miles in. At the break for lunch, it was revealed by our deceptive navigator that we still had another 21 miles to go, many expletives followed, especially as it was already 1.30pm.
The remainder of the route was thankfully completed mostly in sunshine as everyone pressed on stopping periodically to chat to local farmers and fisherman in the hope of extra donations.
This leg was by far the most mentally and physically challenging so far, many personal walls were overcome and injuries carried to finally complete our 13.5 hour day at 10pm!!!!
Blister count = 20 plus
Blister of the day surprisingly again goes to 'The Tank'
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