Shock Horror! - only 38 days to go!!!

Kia Ora! Yes......I'm late again - work is definitely getting in the way of my life!Ha! Had an excellent outing on Saturday morning - just under 30kms at an average speed of 6km/hr ... not bad considering that Rames is still recovering from surgery, and Brent from his latest outing with the 'Huia Bush Runners' on Thursday evening, which left his quads and hamstrings screaming on the hills! Kathryn (aka the Mountain Goat) set a cracking pace from the outset, taking on the Bullock Track, uphill at breakneck speed! I've seen her again already this week and she has some very sexy new trail shoes with plenty of grip for the off-road AND glow-in-the-dark laces, so I hate to think how fast she'll be now - we may have to put a governor on her! :)
We had a brilliant suggestion from the lovely Ellie ter Haar to wrap our feet in lambswool to prevent blisters, which we tried on Saturday, with great success. We are all sold on this idea, so huge thanks to Ellie for the benefit of her experience doing this same trailwalk last year!!
We had our first 'meeting'of the team and support crew over a bbq on Sunday night and managed to sort out a few things, like who would be bringing the Rum and whether they could fit in a quick nine holes while they were waiting for us.(Don't fancy our chances!! Ha!) No...Our support crew actually looks really fabulous of course and are already well onto making their prep in readiness for April! The support crew are Kathryn's husband Polisi and her friend Jan (she obviously feels she needs lots of support! ...... just joking Kathryn, yeah, I know I need to change my attitude! :), my brother Kevin, and Brent's son Sam....an awesome crew!(photos to follow).

We have had an awesome response from friends and family in support of this madness and once again we'd like to send out a big thanks for your contributions and words of encouragment!
Here's the link again if you missed it last week......................

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

Don't forget to keep the 24th April free for our 'post torture' celebration.

That's all for now folks - Have a great week further!
Ka kite ano.