Morning of the Race - April 6th

All slept well on the floor of the room we are using to organise kit at the South Camp Inn at Resolute on our final night before the off. It seemed luxurious compared to last weeks camping out on the Ice every night and allowed us to continue working on kit long into the evening . A good bottle of champagne was opened and despatched by a number of us to celebrate my Birthday. Not feeling satisfied we moved swiftly on and through the 21 Year Old bottle of Highland Park. Feeling good today and really optimistic for the weeks ahead. Even met at Breakfast this Morning Pen Hadow's re-supply man in Resolute (Dominic) part of the Catlin Team attempting to survey ice thickness by dragging a huge radar type contraption to the pole. I told him to mention to Pen there is more then one OH on his way to the Pole now.
Tough bit of the next few weeks will be not speaking to family and friends , but we have each other for company and we are all commited ,so rest easy we plan to .We are 6 hours behind UK time here so when we finish at end of every day (say for example 8PM at night) it would be 2 AM the following day with you , so expect race updates around breakfast time on official race website .They use google earth to track progress of teams so you should be able to see how we are getting on. We have to make a radio call to Base camp at 8 PM each night with our exact location.
All Our Love
Touch Not the Cat Bot a Glove, or as I prefer to translate my family moto , 'Walk Softly but carry a Big Stick' . JM