Wet tent 🤦

I slept like a log last night. And as i woke i felt a dampness from condensation inside the tent. The rent walls were mildly wet. Mildly or completely wet it makes no difference. If it touches the sand it will be atuck to and look like sand paper. This is inevitably what happened. Plus nearly everything i own.

But i succeeded in having breakfast and coffee. And was riding by 7.10. Now i say riding but what i mean is push, drag, pull. This became the order of the day, and it is draining, every muscle is used. Post breakfast i must have walked 3 or 4 kms. I realy could have stopped then i was so tired.

But in the desert there was a camal race track. It had sand for the track and round the outside tarmac then around that another sand track. The inside track were race camals running (no riders) then on the tarmac the camals owners/trainers going at full pelt in suvs following ther camal. Then on the outside of the tarmac were trainers/owners traveling at walking pace, following bunches of camals on the outter sand. The inside lot were going anticlockwise and the outside clockwise. It was mayhem.

Finally i got away from the camal track but there were groups of camals walking everywhere. I got to a coffee shop, Itsmair from north west Pakistan talked great English to me druing my break.

There were only a couple of road sections today. Sometines on the sand i cycled 2 or 3 meters then walked this repeated itself constantly. Gotta tell you i was getting a little grumpy.

Now I’m sure you are saying, some of those areas look like hard pack surely you could cycle. I can assure you most were not.

I had a chicken tika in a bun for lunch it was pretty disappointing. But i did glug copious amounts of water.

The route turned to a track upping and downing. It was hard work. But for different reasons this time. I checked my distance 1pm and only 40kms completed that’s slow going. I knew there was a lake area and i thought of camping there for the night. But it was all locked up. So I rode on.