Tea with Wilfred.

Back on the road, and limped into Pamplona, after 46km. Was feeling quite pleased with myself, until I read Wilfred Thesiger's book about the Marsh Arabs; with no medical training, he performed thousands of circumcisions, and once removed a man's eyeball. But that's ok, they were giants in those days (though admittedly those days coincided with my own - as a teenager, I regularly had tea with Wilfred). Then, this morning, I read about Ricardo Abad, who completed 100 iron men* last year. And in 2012 he ran 500 marathons in 500 days. Take-away lesson? Best not to compare oneself to others.

* 1 iron man = 3.8k swim, 180k bike ride, 42k marathon run.