Follow us LIVE on Monday

Written by Louise Leakey | 27 May 2010

You can FOLLOW US LIVE on Monday 31st 2010. We have got a SPOT finder with us in the car which sends out via satellite a GPS position every 10 minutes and this can be seen on a shared online map. What a great gadget this is!

We will be given the positions of the checkpoints on the Sunday evening and we shall try to get this information onto a map late Sunday evening on this web site (with a little help) so you know where we will be. We will draw our starting position from the hat that evening too and we should be able to tell you this too.

We then depart very early Monday morning for the 10 hour gruelling event. This begins at 0700 hrs in Kenya on Monday 31st (that is midnight on 30th May in New York, 2100 in California) or 4am in London on the 31st May.

You can follow us live on the map on this web site. It will look like this.

You can see a plot of my trip to Lake Turkana today and I will take a ride on the bike in the morning too as a final test run.

Finally I want to share with you a very exciting development on the social networking front, please see this incredible web site www.crowdrise.com and it provides the tools to raise support for many different projects. Everyone should be aware of it and its potential.  I encourage you to take a look and to get involved. Infact, you can even try it out with rhinorouge by making a small donation or join our team on crowdrise!

Any last minute support will cut off those kilometers for us on Monday and will go a long way to protecting the Aberdares. But all donations have to be in by 12 midnight on the 30th of May to count.

With lots of good red luck we hope to report back shortly to you.