What really happens in a desert rally – Morocco Desert Challenge race behind the scenes – Part 4

This is the final part of a 4 part series showing you the real behind the scenes of one of the toughest races out there. I’ve entered the full rally raid class, so up there riding with the pros, and it’s a full on 8 day moving bivouac race. In this video I battle the final stages of the Morocco Desert Challenge. I’d love to say it was smooth but the fight continues with a big off and me even peeing myself while riding to make sure I made the end… I promise you the raw reality so here it is!

You can watch the rest of the series here:
Part 1: The race begins…Morocco Desert Challenge a 3000km extreme desert race https://youtu.be/fv–9ga9ENo

Part 2: Biggest crash of my life https://youtu.be/8ThfNThFzfw

Part 3: My eyes have never hurt so bad https://youtu.be/-LdpY82vDB0

Is KTM Rally Replica worth the price? – In-depth Review https://youtu.be/3DnfWygxa0w

Why does no one talk about this, how to avoid monkey butt https://youtu.be/E7HKS8aZat0

Part 4: I had to pee while riding…raw truths in the fight to the end of Morocco Desert Challenge Part 4 https://youtu.be/1gFDJZwQXeg

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00:15: Race to finale begins
8:21 – Day 7
10:55: Lunch stop
13:51: Bivouac
16:21: Packing for lunch
21:07: Final day briefing
23:43 – Day 8
28:21: Final destination
31:39: Post rally pack down
34:56: Announcement
36:30: The End

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W thank you fa it out let’s make finish L Vanessa what an amazing night woken up in my wooden poster bed here it is I say I feel like a new woman I don’t I feel BR battered and bruised and dehydrated and a desert hot mess as you would

Expect Midway through rally but having a night here I do actually partially feel like a new woman my face has swollen up again overnight as I can see it here don’t know if you can really tell that much on the camera but you can see how

Big my eyelids are um so there obviously some kind of allergy or something that I’m not enjoying here so I’m going to get myself some antihistamines and some breakfast got a little chubby face this is what Vanessa would look like if she was fat and ate all the

Pies actually I don’t need to Pluff my my cheeks you can just see that without just just looking at my face rally life it’s very glamorous so I’m going to get on the bike and we’re going to go to bivette and get some breakfast over and out I can confirm

That I have no idea either there is some kind of rally virus addiction that you get once you go into the desert it’s horrifically brutal sadistic but man it makes you feel so alive and I don’t I realize I don’t look alive right now at some point in this process I feel

Alive but right now we have found Rock and pancakes with some honey coffee coffee eggs eggs and some bread living like rock stars I’ve got a bit of a headache going now so I’m just trying to keep hydrated I’m going to go sit in the pool in the

Shade see if that will help relax my muscles and body um spoken to quite a few of the other races and we’re all feeling not great I’ve also found out that the massive heat wave that is hitting North Africa right now is so extreme that it’s made the news back in

The UK and we’re doing one of the most intense extreme endurance races going in that heat wave so I think it just strengthens the incredibly good but difficult decision that g made to cancel today’s stage and let our bodies recover slightly before going back into the desert again

Tomorrow um cuz we don’t want any more deaths so full time if you have been following me for a while you’ll realize that I don’t stop like ever really I never really rest um I don’t have days off I just keep going that’s just the way I roll I lay down on

The bed at 12:00 midday bear in mind that stage six got cancelled today because of of the dangers of the Heat and the intensity of what US motorbike Riders have been being put through uh and I just woke up at 300 p.m. so I’ve just been out cold for 3 hours in the

Middle of the day I am not a napper but that just to me is a sign of quite how brutal this week has been on my body and how important the decision that today needed to be cancelled has been to let us all recover on I know the other guys

Are all um feeling pretty brutally abused as well and there’s an element of you can push through and fight through so much but eventually they’ll get to a point where your body just says no that’s enough and I genuinely think that today stage six would have seen potentially the desert taking multiple

More people’s lives if it hadn’t been cancelled so it’s a hard decision but so much respect I said it before to G for cancer thing um it’s 3:00 I’ve missed lunch in the hotel and the bwack because I fell asleep uh but obviously my body

Needed it so I’m going to jump on budy and ride 7 and 1/2k back to the biver now and raid my kit box I’ve got some full fill protein bars grenade got some beef jerky some snacks and nuts and stuff so I’m just going to go raid that

And um we’ve got dinner on the biver this evening so I’ll have food then I need to get my road book get that into my I can get my kit and everything sorted for tomorrow as well so I’m going to go and do a little bit more admin and

Then hopefully be able to have a little bit more downtime again this evening so that I’m ready to go tomorrow the honest opinion on how I am doing right now is I feel like I’ve been abused in the desert for 6 days and I have been so I probably

It’s okay that I don’t feel great I’ve got a pounding headache I’ve been taking on more electrolytes and water but at a lower Pace because I’m in an air conditioned so my body is just recovering from what I’ve put it through uh I feel sorry for

My poor husband when he gets me back next week on the 3rd of May I’m going to come home he’s going to be all excited to see me and I’m just going to be like I’m a Zombie but anyway the good news is I’m feeling well enough that I can have a

Giggle right so I’ve got my helmet um I’m going to get on the bike get to the biver whack get some admin sorted and I just want to say that I’m really sorry that this is such a bad video uh I had great intentions of how I was

Going to film and capture this week in the race but honestly there’s a reason that this is one of the most extreme races in the world and I’m racing which is pretty cool with the rankings I’m currently sat 26 overall ah um of 77 by the way 26 77

So I’m really proud of that but I am also surviving this is in insane there’s a reason why not everyone does these races so I apologize for the quality of my video the fact that I haven’t even got my microphone out once so the audio is probably killing

You H it’s nearly killing me but I’m doing my best to share it so let me know in the comments if hopefully I don’t even know if you’re still watching right to a big Whack right we are currently doing bivwak stretching which includes the splits cuz the splits are a vital activity on a motorbike just got oh I’m eating some food I got some Mexican style stuff in a pack the food is definitely helping and just so you know I’m about

To film a motorbike review video of the KTM 450 rally replica so if you’re interested to hear my thoughts on Big Boy check out that video it’ll be on my channel point M cool I have just put my stage seven Road book in now if you don’t understand

What all of this terrifying number and kilometers and little pictures means check out my other video on how to road but navigate but that is how I am finding my way through upwards of like 400 plus kilomet of desert on my own on a motorbike it’s ludicrous

It is a good food day yes please it’s musaka oh it’s musaka even better vegetables amazing amazing thank you Eno yeah super good look at this I’m in the desert in Africa and I get food like this it’s amazing some bread yum good morning on stage five I’m

Whispering cuz there are still people asleep in the bivac and maybe a touch early there’s a tent right there and my camera’s bleeping I am feeling ready we’ve got 276 or something kilomet um we’ve got about 10 15K of dunets and I’m going to do this it’s stage

Seven I think I say to stage 5 that’s how tired I am stage seven an ultimate Day so a bit of kit that is really important to show you I have got a full video uh on my channel on this but this is the Alpine Stars air vest now for

This rally it’s not compulsory but for a lot of the rallies including rall deck the one in cata and daa it is compulsory riding kit so this is an air vest you can see all the inside pocket and in the back here there are a whole load of very clever

Bits of electronics and some gas cylinders which somehow know when you’re having a crash and before you pin it the ground it will deploy now my off that you would have seen previously in this race video it did deploy and it most certainly saved you but this is a sort

Of kit that once you’ve ridden it and had a crash you don’t get on the bike without in this kind of rally environment so there’s the EVS I’m going to get racer start line Time it’s going to be good buddy got to be good Yo how are you doing good do oh good I think this is the freshest I’ve ever been for lunch yes cool we are at lunch chowing down on some food at lunch stop it’s prob the freshest I’ve been at lunch it’s um slightly cooler today still hot but it’s not like near death

Hot right now don’t want to Fe through scene cuz it’s still morning but feel strong and we’re at the halfway point kilometers away yeah we are leaving lunch thank you favorite out let might finish L Vanessa yay wooo yeah yo good job hi finish official no how do I get home go to the B go to the road 45 km and 78 km 45 km turn right okay I will follow You ha made it to muga Stage seven officially complete I made three navigation errors I don’t think they were too critical they cost me maybe one or two minutes each I caught them very quickly and I got all the way points so I’m pleased with that I think my Pace

Was a little bit slower um but I think that’s just like end of the race preservation make the Finish Line don’t take risks kind of mode um but I made it to moua bivak before the bivak here and so I’m just going inside to find a cool

Drink but yeah super pleased with today bivwak is starting to come together so down here is the main eating food area that will be there the rewards are and uh prize giving at the end of stage 8 tomorrow because we’re going to be looping from here around and everyone’s

Starting to fill up the bivac we are at the hotel yasmina hotel yasmina that’s what he said and we are by the muga Junes the biver has hasn’t arrived yet cuz we were so rapid we’re just going to go with that it’s not really cuz we were

So rapid but there is a swimming pool so I’ve taken my kit off down to my really sexy uh padded shorts oh that is cold oh yes oh my God that feels so good don’t drown oh that’s possibly on the verge of heaven right now on the verge of Heaven Final day Tomorrow we are going for a walk with a tent because apparently I can go all way over here I don’t really see the benefit I’ll be further from the generators we’re just going to go further from the generator we’re going to go with that what do you reckon guys does that look

Like a good spot just there by the little Bush there’s not many rocks okay if I put you in the bush you might be able to see me put my there we go nail look at that bush stand so I was going to film me putting

On my tent but it’s so hot the camera overheated and shut down so I didn’t get to film that I’m in the process of just sorting stuff out so I put my tent up over there little little blue blob I’ve got my two roll mats um sheet pillow Etc here I’m about

To take my collagen I have some extra collagen Sports tablets as well as the active collagen that I take drop me a message on Instagram or Facebook if you want information about that I swear buy it for keeping the body going aches pains recovery performance all of that stuff

Um I’m going to have a grenade protein shake get cameras on charge so that I can film tomorrow for the final stage 888 tomorrow G for the Finish Line I’m so close but it can all go wrong in one crash so just going to keep pushing on

Woo I am doing drug dealing so this is a kilo of coke and I’m putting it in my water it’s not so at lunch stop we refill our camel backs and so that is to go into my camel back when I get to the lunch stop and then I’m running a full 3

L and a 2 and 1/2 liter so there’s a small bag for my smaller one um and basically that is a combination of a non-flavored Tailwind this stuff has been gamechanging for me I only discovered it recently because seats in katar was running it and he basically

Did didn’t eat all day and I’m like how are you not eating cuz I was needing uh energy gels and food but this is liquid electrolytes and energy carbohydrates uh for your hydration so you’re basically drinking it so I have a natural one and then a flavored one and

I mix them together now the reason I do that mixing them together is I just find it a little bit too sweet if it’s pure flavored uh so I just do the combination and that works well so for a 3 l camel back in the sort of temperatures that

We’re using here I’m using 12 Scoops hence it looking like I am drug dealing so I have my Moscow bladder right here um and because I premixed a few of these already I uh can actually pour one of my dodgy looking Coke bags in like so so you try not to waste it

That goes into the cam back there we go so it’s called tailwind and they’re a British company which makes me like them even more because I’m supporting local right and then I’m going to get my water and you’re going to see my water magic trick so if you pour the bottle oh

Over but not that wasn’t my magic trick that was just me being a mess so you get your bottle pour it in and then Vortex it it’s the quickest way to empty a bottle this weird thing where camel backs always say they’re 3 l but I’ve

Never really got 3 l in it’s always 2.9 l so there we go that is in I give it a little bit of a mix cuz there’s a lot of powder in there and that goes into my pack now I didn’t use my second bladder today um very much so

Let’s see what state that one’s in yeah the other one is still 1 and 1/2 lers so I can slide this one in the slot and then I put my spare Coke into the up done and then my camera batteries on charge I will slip them in in the

Morning the next thing I do is my Moscow bag has an amazing little front pouch that lives on my chest so in here I have energy gels which pre using this I used to have three or four of them a day I’ve had maybe one or two maximum a day I

Didn’t have one of any today and then I also have a protein bar in there so I’ve got quick food to grab that is all stocked um and that is my camel pack but um I’ve got the 12 L Moscow one now the reason why I’m using the 12 lit one

Instead of the 8 L one is that if it was an early morning liaison or something I’ve got capacity to shove a coat in or something if I wanted to they do do an 8 L one but I just want the space cuz it’s not bigger when it’s not

Full there we go 10’s up food’s done I need to take my collagen so okay so that was magnesium zinc and collagen gone now I need to work out what to do next it is that time again the last time of the race I’m going to have to do my

Roadbook so I’ve got a few pages in amends and then a totally new ending I’ve borrowed Justin’s pencil Case so we’ve just had our briefing and tomorrow has changed we are now doing a 100 kilm we are starting at half n basically at 11:00 this morning here it was 48° that’s pretty hot and they don’t want us to die so they’re shortening the day

Getting rid of a chunk of the Junes section because the Junes is where the most intense heat is found we’re trying to work out our ranking did you just find the ranking what’s your favorite number between 24 and 26 my favorite number between 24 and 26 yeah ooh ooh

Ooh 25 you’re in 25th no way yeah I climbed a rank today I thought I went down today I’m 25th how far off am I the people before uh you have 2 minutes oh you could do that 2 minutes minutes I could do two minutes I’m 2 minutes off

The go front I’m not far ahead of you I’m in 19th position 19th good work final day stage eight this is an eight cuz I only have one hand I am tucked up in my tent I will give you a tour so this is where my head

Goes um this is where my charger is so I’ve got my phone this is my water for in the night cuz you got to stay hydrated um one thing with your water when you’re on a rally like this is that you can’t have water overnight you need to keep the

Electrolytes going overnight uh I learned that the hard way in katar if you watch that video um you’ll understand what happened to me when I didn’t do that overnight um I’ve then got my wash kit I’ve got a little mirror um I’m lying under a towel which

Is actually wet from me having showered because then it’s cooling and it is absolutely vac you can hear the noises probably that is the bivwak that will stay like that into the early hours uh because a lot of the competitors in the buggies and the cars have big mechanical

Issues in the day and they spend all night fixing them um and my flap of the tent is out there and I do not close it it’s possible that the Boogyman spider or or something of the desert might crawl in but I’m hoping they’re more scared of me

Than I am of them cuz I’m not really scared of them uh but I’m hoping the breeze comes in so I’m going to go to sleep and I will see you in the [Applause] Morning okay I’m on the start line it’s very windy there’s quite a lot of dust going around and it is the final 100K I’ve just got to keep doing what I’m doing not crash out and make that finish line for some reason I feel extra nervous today uh I think the fact that

It’s a short kind of Sprint day doesn’t play to my kind of strength so I’m good at sort of just keeping on going at a a steady Pace like endurance style so I’m hoping PL suddenly going to start going crazy fast but we’ll see I will ride

Carefully do my best to bring it home how are You I’m okay I’m okay I’m not sure it’s okay I’m okay I’m okay yeah I think I’m okay I just I just think I’ve hurt myself a bit no I’m okay I’m okay I just hurt my rib on my left side I think a rock went in but my airbag

Went off my airbag was amazing okay can we I can stay with you by you want can we stand up no no you’re I’m okay I don’t need emergency I’m okay I’m actually I’m not here I’ve got I’ve got a stone impact on my left

AB but other was I’m okay did you see it I just heard it I was too far away I heard it and then I just my rear wheel did you see it no no my rear wheel hit something and it bucked me and I managed to recover it recover it until I hit

This lump and then it just launched me and I lost it is my bike okay can we pull this way cuz this is the side that hurts are you okay yeah I think I have to just keep riding are you sure yeah I feel okay but you know like where you

Just get the shock yeah of course and it’s wearing off the airbag the airbag saved me airbag is very good yeah I think I’m good thank you both I’m going to ride super slow I think my brain it will be worse cuz my brain will start to if I just get

Back on and go really Steady My Brain we’re like I’ve got to keep going I got to keep [Applause] going [Applause] Woo W yeah oh my God yeah very good oh my [Applause] [Applause] God I’ve officially made the finish line of the Morocco desert challenge eight stages eight days T kilometers after kilometers of sand and rock and Junes and I made it I have no idea where I ranked yet but today I had the biggest off I’ve ever had on a motorcycle it was

About 28 or 30k in I had filled my motorbike yesterday preparing for the fact that we were doing a lot of sound today but they ended up modifying the route slightly so it was the first day I’ve had my rear tanks full and rear tanks full with a front tank light is

Ideal in sand but in hard rock it’s not and I got a massive buck with my back end hitting a rock and it just went flying I think my back end pretty much went sideways to me I managed to throttle it and hold it straight but it

Was just going into a corner in a rocky crevice and so I ended up not making a corner shot off the side of the track made it off the edge of the track made it through a rock garden and then hit a step and it was a yard sale my Alpine

Stars aest 1 million per saved me uh and I’m hoping you can hear me with the wind um but it was excruciatingly painful I happened to be right near a photographer and they were pretty adamant I needed Medical but I was like I have to make

The Finish Line um I mean quite a lot of pain now but thankfully I carry some strong pain colors just in case I have it off so I took a couple of those along with a woman up pill um anyway and every bump was like Agony I haven’t yet taken

My clothes off and I’m going to be completely honest with you I was in so much pain I was like I cannot take my trousers down for a pee so I’ve reached a new high or a new low in my uh glamorous I ended up having to pee

Whilst riding because I was going to make the finish line and I knew if I stopped the pain would be too much and I wouldn’t carry on but I made the Finish Line absolutely buzzing for it um woo time to get back to the bivwak so here is the

Bivwak finish line is just here and you can see the size of the bivwak all of that is it I’m going to go and get my kit off and take on some Water See you back in England Big Buddy the uh post rally pack down is happening buddy is officially loaded I’m sorting out my kit and my boxes and desert rose guys are getting the wagon packed tonight is going to be the awards night and a big party I’ll uh try and

Get a little bit of footage just to show you how epic a party G puts on at the end one of these valleys um but yeah it’s kind of the end of a very very brutal chapter of my life and I made the finish I don’t know where I ranked yet

So stay tuned for that I’m uh currently trying to organize the Vanessa bomb right here but it’s going well uh I’m feeling good my my my insides are a bit sore all part of r Finish Line I’m about to find out where I placed drum roll do you remember where

You were yesterday no I don’t remember where I was yesterday oh no yesterday I was 25th did you think you went faster or slower slower today you’re still in 25th I have 25th even with my massive off hell yeah 25th of 77 I’m J for that

You can’t worry about that 25th how far ahead was 24th I’m so competitive it’s ridiculous only 9 Minutes 9 minutes if I hadn’t had my off I would have had that cuz my off took me at least 9 minutes oh well I’m sh with 25th 25 go big

Bunny goodbye Desert Rose I’m officially packed up in the bivwak it’s crazy windy and again I have quit life with microphones so I’m sorry I’m on the way to the main bivwak area which is where there’s going to be some celebrations this evening but there’s also Wi-Fi so

I’m going to get a little bit of an update out to the world to let you know that I’m safe because this is a dangerous game um couple of competitors haven’t made it and I know that I’ve got a lot of lovely messages from you lot checking in and

Making sure I’m okay and I cannot say enough how much I love getting your messages and seeing your comments and I might not always reply quickly but I promise you I will get back to you at some point so keep them coming love you

All so much it is about 40° right now so it’s quite warm as it life the wind is pretty spectacular yeah the bit you basically come to these rallies for is the final night dinner how many steaks how good does that look yes guys looks so yummy my

Beers in the way oh my God look at that thank you woohoo finishes you again yeah those are challeng and it was so so different than all the previous editions it was the biggest one in terms of preparation it was probably the best one we’ve ever

Prepared to the front not to the stage because I don’t trust the stage for 200 people or something but please come to the front of the stage ladies and gentlemen first of all I thank the Moroccan authorities for all the help they get and then our sweepers who got so many of you All right normally we only have one trophy for this category only for the winner but we’ve got two other courageous ladies who came here to race the MDC and one of them I am particularly proud of because she was there last year in Tunisia doing her first real desert rally she used

Everything that the organization provided sweeper trucks helicopters every day it was something thing however today one year later she came back to our race and she finished this very tough race she finished the eight stages there she comes ladies and gentlemen coming from the UK Vanessa [Applause] Rook congratulations ladies thank [Applause] you it has come to the end of the rally it has been absolutely incredible brutal painful Soul igniting and everything in between there’s been moments where I felt like I have been riding for my life through to moments where I felt like I’m

Absolutely bossing it and completely in control I’ve Head Over Heels fall in love with big buddy my rally bike check out my other video for my review of the KTM 450 rfr rally replica he is my pride and joy and I’d never can imagine a day where I want to

Sell him I hope I never had to sell him the UN and connection that I’ve made with him this week has just been unbelievable and he’s just an incredible bike but we have just had the prize giving and I’m absolutely Blown Away to be going home from Morocco with an

Incredible trophy from GT and the Morocco desert challenge I have come second in the female category now I’m really really proud to have come second it’s been a huge Journey for me getting to a point where I’m able to to rank um Yale who is the Israeli girl who

Came first is absolutely abolutely incredible on her motorcycle her her skill her speed her refinement is just inspirational so to come second to her is a huge achievement but actually what I’m most proud of is coming 25th overall 46% of people in this race finished all eight stages of 77 Moto category

Starters 31 finished all eight stages and I came 26 of those so while I’m really proud to have come second in the females I actually feel like as a a rider and a racer here in Morocco I’m incredibly proud to have actually ranked in the the top third of the overall Moto

Rankings which is just incredible I’ve been working really hard to try and improve my skill to learn and to develop as a rider and getting that result just makes me kind of all war and bubly inside my body right now is a little bit achy a little

Bit sore I am definitely looking forward to getting back to the UK where temperatures aren’t ridiculous like North Africa what is going on this heat wve is insane I’m Vanessa rck the girl on aike I really hope you have enjoyed seeing my somewhat personal and very honest I hope you

Feel behind the scenes of doing the Morocco desert Challenge from from wearing myself whilst riding through to picking up dead elephants from my bikes in the Junes it has been a roller coaster of a week that’s me the girl on a bike over and [Applause] Out [Applause]