Skip to main content

3 Sleeps!!

Yes that's all it is now!!

Three sleeps and two of those hubby is at work so they will be restless!

Then it's D-Day!

Time for thousands of mad people to converge on the Queen Elizabeth Country Park!
For tents to be put up, mad chatter to fill the air, panic and hormones to rise and BBQ Ghurka style to be munched!
Kit to be checked.
Paperwork to be completed.
Last minute team talks.
Then silence.
An occasional mutter from a nervous walker.
A few short hours of sleep.
Then the rustle of people waking.
Nerves heightening even more!
Ghurka breakfast being cooked and eaten.
Coffee and tea being brewed.
Kit being checked and double checked.
Then finally .. a whistle, some bag pipes and a cheer as the first walkers/runners set off on the start of the 100Km path that makes the Oxfam TrailWalker!

Roll on the weekend!

Comments

shortnginger said…
what a summary i feel like donning my boots and joining you
good luck team
2:46 PM, July 11, 2006
Evil Pixie said…
Oh fanks sng!
I'm trying to go through everything in my mind before hand to prepare myself!
2:54 PM, July 11, 2006
Evil Pixie said…
I can "see" the finish from reading meerkats reports, looking at the pics and reading the TW Pack!
I'm focusing on that!
I can still see all of the 7 CPs we got to!
4:58 PM, July 11, 2006
Treacle Tart said…
I'm getting excited for you Pix - the whole thing sounds as if it will be absolutely amazing.

Go Pix! (and Vrap as well!)
10:20 AM, July 12, 2006
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ten Week Training Block

Monday is the start of a new 10 week training block. Well Ok it's the start of my second round of The Six Pack Revolution this time I am doing the sculpt program. I did Signature in May and did really well. Lost 21lbs and rediscovered my love of running lots (rather than just running!) which has meant that I have had a great, extended, training block for my race next weekend. Problem was that at the end of the 10 weeks I slowly but surely reverted to a lot of my old habits and as such have regained 4-5lbs. Luckily my running has kept it to just 4-5lbs - I know if I hadn't been doing so many miles then it would have been more. So next week I start again, and I am trying a different mindset. Instead of seeing it as a 10 week program I am thinking of it as a 10 week training block. The say Winter miles make for Summer smiles but also the winter is a time for more indoor training! When most runners hide away a bit but do more of the stuff we should do all year as we then have an ex...
Post a Comment
Read more

Sensible Head

The choice was getting wet or getting wet. I opted for the wet but warm option rather than the wet, cold and wind swept option! So 1m done at the pool including 2 goals being achieved and some board work. I said a while ago I wanted to be able to do 20 lengths non stop DONE and 10 lengths of front crawl non stop DONE!! So happy pixie. Used a different pool today as I wanted to see about lessons for Gnome. It was a nightmare to locate the car park and once I found it, it was full to the brim with cars circling for spaces so I drove the 200m down the road to the free parking and nabbed the last space there instead! The pool is old so not pretty or ponced up but it is clean and in good repair and they do Saturday lessons and Gnome can start this week! OK so he then has 2 weeks off but how good is that! My other option was the pool near work and a possible start mid February! So just need to get the OK from Gnome and a commitment to get out of bed for a 9:30 lesson every week until March (...
7 comments
Read more

The Next Three Weeks

So I have a few busy weeks ahead that may, or may not, affect what happens here. So this weekend I am running the Chester metric marathon - should do about 3:30 and get a PB by around 30 mins if things go to plan. Next week I am on holiday and have the in-laws visiting which will be nice. Then after then I have 2 weeks of jury service in Derby. I really want to get a case as I am really interested in knowing what actually happens and what it's like in court. But knowing my luck I will have 2 weeks of waiting for nothing. I have Ami's zoom calls to review and take notes on, books to read, coloring/drawing to try my hand at and Loki to watch! After that the exciting news is my part time request has gone through so from 4th December I will be part time. Very exciting. Then hopefully I can start a potential path to being a swimming teacher. Fun days ahead
Post a Comment
Read more