The first day of the run begins at the Pallisa Branch of the Uganda Red Cross. The run will leave Pallisa town with the noise of the cheering supporters in the runners ears and the thought of “we must be crazy to be running 240km in 34c”. The first 20km of the run is on the dusty red roads of the “Palisa Highway” passing villages and trading centres on the way. 10km into the run will see the team arrive at Buseta and chants of “go mzungu go”... The team will have a break and support the amazing Pallisa Red Cross volunteers providing training to the community. This part of the run will provide the team with the opportunity to practice their “high fives” with the local kids and get everyone motivated to 
support the Red Cross. At the end of the dusty road we arrive at Kibuku which will give the team a chance to have a banana break, meet the community and say farewell to the Pallisa volunteers. At this point we join the new tarmack road which runs to Iganga. The next part of the run is quite rural and passes smaller villages,trading centres (Bulolo,Buyange, Kalamira), the swamps and arrives at Namutumba for the end of day 1 and the celebrations of surviving the first 43km.Day 1 - Live Team Update:
Day one of the run began with a 5am wake up in Iki Iki, some mango and a quick 
drive to Pallisa town. Everyone was quiet in the jeep on the journey and our minds drifted off to the realisation of the task in hand!!! We were greeted in Pallisa with our support team for the next week and some early morning stretches..
drive to Pallisa town. Everyone was quiet in the jeep on the journey and our minds drifted off to the realisation of the task in hand!!! We were greeted in Pallisa with our support team for the next week and some early morning stretches.. We left Pallisa on the dusty red roads at a good pace at 7.14am (a little late but we will get better!!). The radio stations have so far been amazing and all the local communities have been coming out to meet us and shouting "here come the runners for run for 
humanity"... To which the happy runners replied "Jambo" and more smiles and waves were received.
humanity"... To which the happy runners replied "Jambo" and more smiles and waves were received. On the journey we met many of the volunteers that were running community based first aid and raising awareness of the road safety (one of the biggest killers in Africa and major concern for Uganda). The journey wasn't as flat as we hoped but after 22km we did meet a tarmac road (which kindly reflected the heat for us!!!!).
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