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Category: Smelly Trainer Facts

small snippets from the road related to the run itself e.g. what nutrition they are taking, what sort of physical changes they are feeling etc

Tropical explained!

by kath lowrieBig Toe Blog, Smelly Trainer FactsPosted on 02/04/201302/04/2013One Comment

So far we have run 3,300 miles from the temperate or cold zones in the deep South of South America, full of snow and penguins, through the dry and desertified zones of the sub-tropical belt in Argentina, where water was hard to find and the cactus grew in sandy soil, and today we are officially …

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