Wednesday - day 1 of challenge.
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It will be dark for a few more hours but we've been up for an hour already.
We are waiting to be picked up by the truck as we girls were in separate accommodation.
The four cyclists have to assemble their bikes which are due to arrive any time and the four female back up team members are going to give them a hand loading the empty bike boxes and luggage, prepare breakfast and get the stickers on the vehicles as they were with the bikes.
The mood is electric.
A lot of hard work and dedication have brought the team to this moment and they are torn between anxiety at the endurance test ahead and the long list of things that could go wrong...
Vanessa MacDonald