March 18th 2009

Aaron...
Well thats it, did my last 4.5km today and have hung up the training gear and now the next trainers I lace up will be on race day 60 hours away give or take. I have to say I have been jumping out of my skin for the past couple of days and cannot sit still at the office it is such a bizzare feeling I struggle to explain it. Its like my body is crying out for a run and the 4-8kms we have run each day this week barely scratch the itch. Lets hope that come Saturday the feeling is the same. Getting plenty of carbos on board now and drinking water like there no tomorrow and visiting the loo more times than I care to count but thats not a bad thing. Spoke to Chris a couple of times today and he sounds like crap, he has picked up a bit of a cold/chest infection and he is sweating on losing it as soon as possible, maybe its time to get in some antibiotics but he will be fine on the day.
We have had a fair few donations to the Trust and we cannot say how thankful and blown away we are to everyone who has taken the time to read the site and send in money especially in these difficult financial times. Again the people in my office have jumped onto the sponsorship bandwagon albeit with a few qualifying statements for the promise of extra dollars, I hope we can meet and beat expectations, its all for a good cause as they say.
Well I think I will make a last pre-race entry on Friday and then thats us, all the hours and kilometers spent training for this race are behind us and its just us, 3 peaks and 47kms, bring it on. Kia Kaha Aaron