First email from Tim

Got this email from Tim @ 8:45am this morning:

Got your email last night [and m&d, and Sheona]

Windy night and sandstorms at the start - in fact this tent just collapsed and took out a few people, zero vis when it comes through..

I dialed the pace right back today - no longer competing...but just trying to complete!

ITB giving me massive trouble - if I stop I'm immobilised!

Finshed today, 5:21, the knee started to come good, but right after I crossed the line, BANG I couldn't walk - had an injection of anti inflam into the space between the ITB and the articulation, not into the articulation itself [don’t know what the drug was]

Today was 38km, tough but fewer dunes than yesterday - was going well until checkpoint 2 then the knee arced up - will continue as long as I can move forward.

Looking forward to a cold beer, but that won’t be for a while now.

We ran through an old town and a dry river/lake area, uneven ground was very difficult, took the wind out of the sails.

The setup is amazing, it’s like they move a small city every day!