Pray for you in apply for China Visa.

Keep it up !

I have been so busy I have not even had a chance to check this site for 24hours.
I enjoyed running with the runners but unfortunately they decided on a finish location way out of the city and off my route and didnt even communicate with me or other runners about the change from the city centre. I know their hearts were in the right place however it was just incompetence and they didnt even communicate to tell runners that the route was changed one runner phoned me to say she was disapointed as she didnt know, I trusted them and am annoyed as now I got to return to a remote location to continue the run and find a way to get my cart there. I am annoyed also with myself for I lost control of my run for the very first time. All the time when I left the highway they kept insisting we were still running to bangkok, all be it the greater Bangkok area. The party was attended by about 6 of us, a catered meal, I presume many people did not show or more likely not know. We could have had that in a restaurant downtown. I was told the original place was booked out.
You know even after explaining this several times, they still dont get it and understand why I now got to return to that remote location and after all my hard days with 60km days to arrive on Sunday.I have been asked why I dont restart from the city and not the remote school!! One man who was very friendly just shook my hand and walked away when we arrived, I know he thinks I am an A H
Yes there were about 20 runners and we even got a police escort for the last 15km. The runners were told I would start at 7am and again more poor communication they showed up at 5.30!!!!
I am told Thai’s cant organise events as there are usually disasters and often hire foreign companies to do this, I believe this to be the case,very much so!
Despite all this I am very grateful to people that offer me help, all be it two drivers even lost me on the road in locations that were not so busy and I was highly visable, I am annoyed and to be honest think I would be better off on my own without any help, but would miss the runners.
On one of those 2 days they lost me I lost 10km, and thought about that a lot on my very weary run towards Bangkok when I could have had a shorter day.
Anyway got so much work to do and Wednesday is a holiday here. Please stand by for some major breaking news on the run in a few days time.

Hope your stove and sheet arrived there-congratulations on a fantastic run I still hope to join you again next year

I am joining the run raw crew from Ceduna in South Australia next week for the run back to Melbourne

I got cleared from the cancer thing after lotsa problems

Michael