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"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever" Lance Armstrong   Day #3   Woke in the morning at 04:30 and straight on with the daily tasks. It’s strange how quickly you adapt to something that’s new to life when a huge part of survival & success relies on it.   I found there’s a knack to getting ready for a challenging day in the Jungle but you have to be totally disciplined in your prep and if you aren’t, then you just make life a whole lot harder for yourself. With the rain still lashing down, dark, waterlogged ground along with insects that’d devour any uncovered flesh around camp, trying to staying dry, mud free and unbitten was challenging. The first part of my routine was to get my running top on as soon as I’d vacated my hammock. Wringing it out as much as possible, grinning and bearing it to slap it overhe...
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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas Jefferson   Day #2 Last night was NOT a good night. The last 3 runners got back to camp and pitched beside my hammock quite late. Boom, there went a peaceful night's rest. Somehow they managed to dislodge my rain sheet and although it wasn't raining at the time it happened, it was inevitable it'd rain in the night so out fixing my hammock rainsheet at 23:45 was not cool! I could've quite easily left it but bloody pleased I didn't coz an hour later it absolutely belted down for the entire night.   Luckily none of my dry kit got wet so was pleased I'd made the effort to repair damage I'd not caused.    One bad thing aboout sharing centre posts with many others meant that if one person moved in their hammock, we all moved.  Someone connetcted to our "centre-s...