Everest marathon 24th November

I thought that it had rained in the night as I had heard what i thought was the sound of rain on the tent.  It was actually the wind in the prayer flags above our tent. It was a beautiful morning but as we were  in the shadow of Thamserku we were in the shade and it was pretty cold.  Menai had to attend a marshall meeting and i wrote up the journal as I waited.  Luckily the sun came up out and warmed things up. We had a long walk down from Kyangjuma down to the river and as this was the race route we knew that we would have to climb up the slope on race day. Apparently this is the hardest part of the route coming at about 15 miles into the race.  From now on we will be paying careful attention to the route.  After the river we had a long 75 minute climb to Tengboche (3867m) where there is a monastery and on race day there will be an aid station. We picked at an uninspiring packed lunch but did buy coffee and cake which made up for the packed lunch. We wanted to look around the  monastery but had to wait about 40 minutes for it to be opened. There were no monks in the monastery so the look round was a little boring. There were lovely views from Tengboche up the valley towards Everest, down towards Namche and up the Gokyo valley. We headed down to our camp site at Debouche (3757m)  which had a lovely lodge and views. We all seemed to be really hungry so appreciated the veggie momos.  We both had a great night's sleep.