Day One Thousand and Forty Three

Friday 20th April

The event got underway without and hitches and meanwhile I headed to Checkpoint 7 to bump that in. Again that took most of the day. I had my first call at 5am whilst still in bed and got up at 7 to head off to CP7.

It rained hard during the morning so it meant all the contractors were late. We ended up leaving the site at about 4pm, well behind schedule.

A quick trip to Checkpoint 8 to get both breakfast and lunch at 4.30 and then off to the Finish to see the first teams come across the line just before 5pm. A new Australian record.

Headed home at 5.30 and got 2 hours sleep before heading back to the Event Control Centre for 9pm to do an overnight shift managing logistics. Headed home at 5am Saturday.