5.30am and a hard frost welcomed us this morning as we gathered our kit ready for the start. 34 miles from Devizes to Newbury awaited.
As the mercury rose above -5C crews arrived for registration and kit check in the car park of Devizes Wharf. And then all of a sudden we were on the start line...and off.
The first 17miles were incident free. As we neared our nemesis the .... tunnel (where we had fallen in during our last race on this section of the canal) a narrow boat entered the tunnel and all approaching crews were forced to wait so we decided to get out and run.
Fatigue was starting to rear its head now and our portages began to draw out, but we kept up the same paddling pace on the water throughout the day covering around 6miles per hour excluding time on land.
Newbury was a welcome site and the end of Day 1 was quickly followed by a long shower and quick snooze before refuelling ready for an even better day tomorrow.
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