Down to Days...

We are now counting the days, rather than the weeks and months to trailwalker. I think it is fair to say that the best part of last week has been spent panicking! We all agree that this is the scariest thing we have ever done - scarier than not being able to walk in heels for her cousin's wedding four days after trailwalker (Hel - although she is pretty scared about that!), scarier than taking on Jeremy Paxman in an argument (Anna - she won!), scarier than walking down the aisle (Niamh), scarier than living in a foreign country for a year (Charlie) and it is even scarier than trying to persuade Anna out of bed to go to lectures in first year of university!! (I'm so tired!)

But with a few days to go, we have sorted our support team, started carb loading (eating lots of chocolate!) and are becoming obsessed with all things trailwalker - checking our fundraising, checking our blog, checking oxfam's website - it goes on and on!

Another obsession appears to be a preoccupation with the weather - let's just hope that bbc weather does not let us down, which shows cloudy sun and 18 degrees for the weekend, no rain and no 30 degrees scorchers please.

Other obstacles appear to be:

1) Why are waterproof trousers so hard to find and so expensive?
2) Warm hats and gloves are hard to find in July!
3) Portaloos for 30 hours fills several of our team with dread (more so than the walk itself)

All four of us spent a relaxed weekend doing very little, I think all of us like the 'tapering' part of training! Hel, Anna and Charlie took the chance to explore Oxford Street for the first weekend in a long time, only to discover that the tube is full of unhygienic people and Oxford Street is not as pleasant a place to hang out as they remembered. Niamh took the more sedate route of meeting friends by Tower Bridge spending the afternoon watching a wedding party get more excited and drunk. We all had a lovely Saturday evening celebrating Anna's birthday, which is our most civilised birthday to date - we must be growing up! In reality, I think the half glass of wine we all drank kept us in check.

So 4 days to go:

Shoes - check
Blister plasters - check
Tents - check
Motivational quotes - check
Song sheets - check
An amazing support team - check

4 scared but capable ladies - CHECK!

We're good to go, see you on the other side.

ps. We have a sweepstake of who will cry first - I know who my money is on!