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and make sure I'm back in the van with Bernie, Katie and the team by
around five each evening.
I wish all I had to do was run. Unfortunately, after finishing
85 kilometres, I'm thrust back into the logistics of my journey. If
I don't find new sponsors to pay for guides and vehicles and flights
and equipment, I may not be able to afford to go to the South Pole. I
spend my nights writing emails to companies, begging them to back
me. Just getting myself across the Darién Gap and into Colombia in
South America will set us back many thousands of dollars. We have to
pay for the vehicles and crew to be shipped through the canal and on
to Colombia. I am preoccupied by the dangers of the Darién rainfor-
est, with its bandits, paramilitary thugs and wild animals. I'm thinking
that if I survive all that I stand a chance of finishing the run, but only
if we can then somehow raise the money needed to get in and out of
the Antarctic. I have no clue where that money is going to come from;
I just have a strong faith that it will turn up.
I learned today from the Australian Red Cross that the East Timor
clean water project is underway, funded in part by donations I've
