Last slave day done

Well that was the last of my slave days done and dusted. It was lots of hedge trimming and pruning.

So that's it. Only 7 weeks till the event itself. The ready of the weekends need to be training and of course veggie growing.

I'll keep you posted on the training.

5Peaks itinerary. Eeeek!

Itinerary 04 - 08 July 2012
The Heroes 5 Peaks Challenge crosses 4 national borders and one sea as participants take on Snowdon in Wales,

Scafell Pike in England, Ben Nevis in Scotland, Sleive Donard in Northern Ireland and Carrantuohill in Eire.

Wednesday 04 July

14:00 Registration opens at the Snowdon camp, we encourage you to join by public transport; shuttle buses from Betws-y-Coed train station will be running from 1300 onwards

17-19:00 You will be treated to a Heroes dinner and safety briefing to prepare you for the challenge ahead, before an early night.

Thursday 05 July

02:00 The challenge begins! An early start will see you pack up camp and board transport as you head to your first peak.

03:30 Transfer shuttles start to Pen-y-Pass
04:00 Snowdon Climb, Wales ( 3 ,560ft or 1,085m )
08:30 Transfers to Scafell Pike Seathwaite Base Camp via coaches
13:30 Scafell Pike Climb, England (3,209ft or 978m )
19:00 Transfers to Ben Nevis Base Camp via coaches and the chance to get some sleep as you

prepare for the highest peak of this challenge.

Friday 06 July

02:00 Hot food, kit check and safety brief
02:30 Ben Nevis Climb, Scotland ( 4,409ft or 1,344m )
08:30 Transfer to Cairnryan to catch the Ferry
14:00 Arrive Cainryan to check in for our ferry crossing
15:00 Sail to Larne (Northern Ireland ), an hour rest to prepare for your first Irish Peak. 16:00 Dock at Larne
16:30 Transfer to Slieve Donnard Base Camp via coaches
18:30 Hot food break
19:00 Slieve Donnard Climb, Northern Ireland ( 2,789ft or 849m )

Saturday 07 July

00:30 Transfer to Carrantuohill Base Camp (the last mountain!! ) 07:30 Breakfast break
08:00 Carrantuohill Climb, Republic of Ireland (3,406ft or 1,038m ) 11:00 Summit Carrantuohill – Heroes 5 Peaks Done!

13:30 Arrive back into Carrantuohill car park 14:00 Arrive at the tented village ( w ith the bar! ) 19:00 You celebration Heroes Dinner is served 

Gentle reminder

Here's a gentle reminder of my fundraising page.

http://www.bmycharity.com/5PeaksChallenge

If you like my blog or simply want to support our military heroes please donate what you can. Even a simple pound will help. Remember to tick the gift aid box.

Tough Mudder done

That's Tough Mudder done and dusted or should I say done and squelched.

The course was long and hideous which made it superb. It started with a short pelt down a hill and strait in to chest deep water just to get you wet for the rest of the run. The water was a heck of a lot colder than I was expecting. Really took my breath away.

Next obstacle was another dip followed by an uphill crawl through Mudder under barbed wire. A short stagger up the hill and it was in to a large skip of ice cubes and water that I had to dive under. Belting headache and lack of functioning limbs for a while after that one. And that was mile one. Eeek.

There followed another 11 miles of 12 foot walls, water tunnels, log carries, burning bales, mud and more mud, cargo nets to climb over and under. Then the last mile held the hideous electric eel (yes as bad as it sounds) balance beam, monkey bars, 15 foot jump to water and the famous TM everest that involves running up a slippery half pipe. Then the last push to the finish through the electric wires.

It was an amazing day with stunning weather and everyone helping each other. The TM pledge is that it's a challenge not a race so times aren't important but helping each other rough the more is everything.

Horrendous race...I'll be back!

So the running kit needs to go away now. It's five weeks till the five peaks challenge so time to get the walking boots on, Freddie on his lead and get some walking mileage done.

Radio interview

Just had an interview over the phone for Chelmsford Radio. They wanted to ask about Tough Mudder and why I was doing it. Good fun. They do want me to go in to the studio after Tough to talk about how it went. No backing out in that case hahaha.

Fingers crossed the weather improves. Our house has been on the verge of being flooded this week so will be nice to not worry about that and have a decent weather for the race.

Hopefully the radio will publish my 5 Peaks sponsorship page on their website. May get something more from it.

So the next blog will be after this next weekend and I'll let you know how it went. After that it's time to train for the 5 Peaks Challenge.

Deep droughts

It's now only two weeks today till Tough Mudder. It's going to be a really tough race. Fingers crossed the weather improves.

On that note our river is very high and ready to flood. Just praying for the rain to stop. Even so it normally reaches its peak 12 hours after due to run-off. Keep everything crossed for us if you are reading this today.

Saturday coming sees me in my radio interview for Southend and Chelmsford Radio about Tough Mudder. Am hoping they'll let me mention my fundraising page.

Would be more excited about TM but the potential flooding keeps the head busy. Once I can relax I'll get on here and say a bit more about the race and how the radio interview goes.

One more slave day to go

This Saturday saw me doing my second to last slave day. It was different to the others I.e. not gardening. It was a day of garage clearing, tent drying, sandpit building and campervan washing. So there's one more gardening to day to go the weekend after Tough Mudder. Hopefully I'll be moving by then! Today was a good day at the gym trying to get myself more ready for Tough Mudder. It was a packed hour of 20 mins treadmill, 20 mins stepup machine and 20 mins rowing. Seriously shattered after all that. I've been reading the updates on the Tough Mudder website and I'm going to have to step up a gear to get ready. They reckon it'll be 3 hours to complete and some of the obstacles are looking terrifying. Ah well, bring it on.