Our local hero Nicky Chrascina has fround it very tough indeed and managed to continue despite serious blisters.
She is just 10 minutes away from starting the last stage of 18 km after walking and running since last Sunday for 61 hrs 19 minutes. She is currently placed 742 out of 811 still in the race. 38 have dropped out. Considering the demands of being self sufficient for the whole time and the difficult conditions, its remarkable that so many are still there. At least having eaten all their food by now their packs are much lighter so that will be a relief.
As usual you can get up to date info from the race web site:
http://www.darbaroud.com/uk/html/mds/26mds/roadbook/uk_26mds_roadbook_6.php
The leaders who are starting an hour after the slower competitors will be racing over this relatively short stage so should be on the web cam from about 10 am local time ( 11 am UK) perhaps earlier!
Here is a photo of Nicky finishing at the end of the 80 km stage (taken from the computer screen)
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