A mercifully quiet day and night. Much lying around carbo-loading to the nines, got the Iridium satellite phone and data connection working, a short warm up run where we ended up with an enourage of local kids who also wanted to warm up and down ith us, and some formalities of registration and the pasta party. Weather forecast is for 30C in the shade (of which there is none) with the possbility of very strong winds and sand storms. Bring it on. I´m very excited now. I feel ready (hopefully that´s not just the carb sachets talking!) and raring to go, inspired by a couple of short videos we were shown today of last year´s run. The nerves have gone, i know i´ll do it, and now i just want to run.