6.15am Tea and Coffee Queue

Need Caffeine. Caffeine. Caffeine. Overheard in the queue again...

A guilty team member eventually owns up to eating more than their fair share of Snickers Bars

A guy is telling his team mate that he's excited about reading his Gardners World magazine at one of the checkpoints...

This time I'm suprised about the vast differences in clothing that people are wearing. Ive got no less than 4 tops, trousers, hat, wellies a scarf and gloves on, yet there's people looking like they're going to walk in just shorts and a T-shirt...Although it does look like the sun is starting to come out now. Hooray!

6.50am

I spy Alicia who is looking a little bit worried.

7.00am
The people in this start time group are much livelier. When the bagpipes play, there's singing clapping and even a bit of dancing. Similarly the countdown is much louder and there is a huge cheer as it reaches one.