Week 5 - 53 days to go!

Who needs drugs to get a high!! Today Brent, Kathryn and I acheived our own dopamine induced "runners high" after completing just over 30kms in the rain, covering not 5....but 7 of Auckland's volcanoes! It must have been quite disconcerting for the other patrons of this small Pt. Chevalier Cafe to see three appearingly sane, but somewhat smelly adults in fits of uncontrollable giggles over.......well, who knows what it was about!!
Despite having completed almost this distance before, today was something of a challenge walking for 5 hours in wet feet, up and down said volcanoes, resulting in 3 x sore bums, 6 x aching feet, 1 x sore toe and a blister!
Many thanks to those of you who have made donations onto our official 'Loose Covers' (that's our team name) Oxfam webpage. The link for this is in last weeks post and here again if you missed it

http://www.oxfam.org.nz/events/teams.asp?a=show_team_pages&eventid=24&teamid=4064.

It's very cool....when you make a donation, we get an email telling us this has happened, your name goes on the webpage and our donations thermometer total goes up - just awesome! This makes all of our hard work seem worthwhile! :)