As the first month of the Vendee Globe 2020 comes to a close and Pip begins her journey across the Southern Ocean, we catch up with Joff Brown (Pip’s technical director) and Paul Larsen (world sailing speed record holder) to find out what they think of the race so far and to discuss some of the challenges Pip will face in the coming weeks...

In this latest blog post Pip’s chiropractor and Sports Therapist, Shelley Davies, shares her rehab and injury prevention programme.

There has not been a huge amount of sleeping happening on Medallia in the past 24 hours.

The only thing I am sure that has been on any of our minds overnight has been the rescue of Kevin Escoffier

This is it, today I will leap off into the unknown as I line up to make the leap south and east and towards the big bad Southern Ocean.

Conditions have just slightly altered, enough to allow me to power Medallia up and get her drive back and after days of kicking and thrashing we got our act together and shot off through the night.