Today was another long day and would provide extremely challenging and demanding terrain. There were many steep descents and climbs and around 9 river crossings.
The morning went without any major problems and everyone enjoying the challenge. However, in the afternoon, we got news of a silver team member having taken a bad fall and needing the doctor, who was currently with us. It took a while to establish his exact location, so the yellow team was getting behind again.
We set off again, back into more technical sections and had the first yellow team incident. Coming up a bumpy and rutted, muddy climb, two of the team collided and ended in a heap on the floor. Unfortunately, Paul needed the doctors attention. Luckily Doc Hennie had returned from dealing with the silver team incident and quickly diagnosed broken ribs. With the help of pain killing injections, Paul managed to get back on and ride to the fuel stop. Here we were joined by a very unwell looking Prince Harry, who was suffering with a stomach bug. Paul and Harry decided to go by 4X4 to the overnight stop, while the rest of the groups continued on to the final challenge of the
day.Our final challenge of the day was the "Gorge", a steep rocky, bumpy and muddy descent to a short river crossing followed by a long, steep boulder strewn climb out the other side. Only the experts made it up without stopping and the rest of us needed many helping hands to get all the way up.
After reaching the top, I walked back down to help the rest of the group. What a mistake! By the time I had walked back up again I could barely breath. We reached the hotel in darkness.
I was extremely tired and to make matters worse came down with the stomach bug that was by now sweeping through the riders.
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