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100 or 200 tonnes. Yet the winds and currents still bowl them around
like kids playing marbles in the school playground.
We've been making 22 kilometres a day for the past few days. Our
sleds are lighter again, because we're getting through our fuel and
food. Food has become our main topic of conversation. After nearly
40 days on the ice, there is a sameness to our activities each day: we try
to stay alive while moving forwards over the ice and snow. It's a little
monotonous. If we focus not on our hardship but on food, it becomes
easier to keep going. We try to one-up each other with our descrip-
tions of the things we love to eat. Baked dinners, cheesecakes, even Big
Macs get plenty of mentions. I boasted to Clark how I could polish off
ten Cadbury's Flakes in a flash.
This afternoon, as I set up the tent, I felt elated. I've damn near
beaten the North Pole leg. Surviving this most terrifying section has set
me up, in a way, for the rest of the run. I feel that I will have credibility
keeping pace alongside me. Before, I was saying 'I'm going to run from
the North Pole.' Now, I can say 'I
ran
from the North Pole.' Bernie has
warned me not to be complacent, however. He reckons that traversing
