dakar: epilogue

it's been over 4 months since i finished the dakar, but when i recap the stories i talk about it with as much disbelief as someone reading about it, it does not seem possible....

.......writing now, the pain and anguish still lingers, but the excitement of being part of the circus is always there..... i don't think this feeling will ever go away, a paradox.....

i'd been in south america for 26 days and 18 of those days had been with the dakar.....a baptism of desert burning fire....scarred for life.....a good scar to have, perhaps?

i'm training hard in and out of the gym, body repairing, getting strong again, energy levels back and not running off the dakar momentum (adrenaline!!), i'm travelling at my own pace.....but a new pace.....there is no going back to pre-dakar.....

struggling with the normality of life......

i just want to 'crack on!'