So here we are heading back to Cairo. What I love about going to the Sahara is that you have to plan in advance but once there you have to live in the present.
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Prior to the excavated goat we indulged in a spot of champagne and caviar in fulfilment of a birhday promise. Magical! To contribute to the food overload there were two beef fillets (known locally as crocodiles) plus delicious rice and a smidgen of salad (didn’t want to overdo things).
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Woke very early before sunsrise. Everyone else asleep judging by the snoring. The change in colours as the sun rises is difficult to describe in words – but I’ll give it a go.
Read MoreOff to the White Desert today. Muscular Salute to the Sunrise followed by “old Person’s Stretching” and fight stepping.
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After sunrise exercise and breakfast everyone goes training but as the drivers are taking the opportunity to fill up with diesel (news of a delivery in town).
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Awoke to the prospect of a training day. Made an early start stretching as the sun came up. Extensive Egyptian breakfast followed by alignment and balance training.
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It’s amazing how much you can fit into a day when you leave your watch at home. A heavy overnight dew left everything pretty damp but still beats my experience of camping on wet weekeds in Wales.
Read MoreDay zero – up at 02.30 for 06.00 flight to Cairo via Vienna. Sat at same tables in same restaurant cafe as last year – wonder if this means time not passing?
Read MoreFWC will soon be jetting off to Egypt once more for another week of training and adventure in the Sahara Desert!
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Neuroscientist Yevheniia Mikheenko (FWC Cambridge) has been successful in obtaining funding from the Medical Research Council to start a research project to investigate psychophysiological biomarkers with the aim of “Characterising adaptive emotion regulation in resilience”
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