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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
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