Life is an ultramarathon

This is the exhaustive equipment and food list I have carried with me on my Thames Source Quest attempt.

Clothing

• shorts (Raidlight/Ufo)
• T-shirt (Hardmoors 55)
• socks, underwear
• shoes (Salomon XA Pro 3D Ultra)
• Buff (Hardmoors 110)
• spare long sleeve T-shirt (Millet)

Equipment

• backpack (OMM Classic Marathon 25L)
• purification bottle (Aquapure Traveller)
• 45 route cards
• time table + small pen
• first aid:
  • Compeed
  • Ibuprofen
  • Paracetamol
  • 2 disinfectant wipes
  • 2 rehydration sachets
  • 2 Coalgant
  • Vaseline
• head torch
• hand disinfectant
• survival bag
• whistle (on the bag)
• tissues
• mobile phone
• Muvi Atom camcorder
• ID

I'm pretty happy with this equipment list.

Food

Item	Q.	KCal/u	g/u	KCal	g
SiS GO gel	10	90	70	900	700
Creme de marrons	4	200	85	800	340
Elevenses	4	204	50	816	200
Snikers	10	296	58	2,960	580
Bounty	5	268	57	1,340	285
Tuc	2	783	150	1,566	300
mini Babybel	12	61	20	732	240
hazelnuts				2,000	300
rye bread	2	985	500	1,970	1,000
Total				13,084	3,945

Plus 4x750ml water bottles for the non-tidal Thames section.

In the event of a further attempt, I might take a bit less food. Indeed, the bag was rather heavy and I don't think I would have eaten it all. For example if I just remove 5 gels, one creme de marrons and one rye bread, I would end up with about 3kg and still 11,500Kcal, increasing the overall energetic density from 3.32 to 3.8KCal/g.

Ultra food.