He saw our pain and suffering, and he knows of the good of our journey, so yesterday his omnipotent power reigned supreme, he reached out with his noodly appendage, touched us and cured us of our ills
Small inside joke
Just in the nick of time, the bug has passed, and we are quickly getting back to fighting fitness. VERY relieving indeed. But I have to draw the positives, it forced us to finally rest, so now we’ll be stronger for it J
The excitement is now unbearable, only a few days of work to pass before we get to the mountain and achieve the ultimate goal. For me it’s been quite a journey. I can’t tell you why I’ve always wanted to climb Kili, it’s not really a rational goal. I’m not a mountain climber, I’ve never been to Africa. But I’ve always wanted to go.
You may already know that Nas and I by this point should of already been to Kili, we should already have been able to claim the mountain and challenge as conquered. But some higher powers had others plans, during training preparations last year I went to a wedding, stood in Church and professed to not believing in God – the following morning whilst running I broke my ankle, quite badly.
SO, either God is a bit of a git and quite vengeful, my Pastafarian power above thought I was ill prepared, or it was just back luck, the opinions have made for many amusing conversations this year.
That’s brings us back to now, take 2!!
I had four objectives for this trip:
Raise enough money
Get fit enough
Get down to 100kgs
Climb the mountain
I am over the moon, a few days before the trip to have achieved the first 3.
Between us we’ve raised, 80’000 Dirham’s. A sterling effort from all involved, I once again extend my sincere thanks to every friend, family member, colleague and company that supported us. I will assure you now that It will go to a very good use, later on I shall show you the pictures following out trip to the charity and the kids this coming Friday
The getting fit enough and losing weight have gone hand in hand. Since about Feb I’ve trained every week, hard. I’m in better shape than I have been for a long time. Thanks go to Nas, who pushed me every step, joined me in every stupid idea and then dreamt up the next silly training session, and to Abs and Ameer who brought enthusiasm and comradery. Upping our game has made all the difference. Today I weigh 100.5kg, when I took my first measurement in March/April’ish I weighed in at 118.5, that’s 3 stone lost in the last few months, I can only imagine how much that’s going to help me once on the mountain. Nas put it into perspective this morning by saying that I could now carry our entire teams daypacks it would still only be what I weighed a few months ago.
So in the nature of adventure, in the name of charity, in the need to make a difference and in the spirit of an awesome challenge..................BRING IT ON
Small inside joke
Just in the nick of time, the bug has passed, and we are quickly getting back to fighting fitness. VERY relieving indeed. But I have to draw the positives, it forced us to finally rest, so now we’ll be stronger for it J
The excitement is now unbearable, only a few days of work to pass before we get to the mountain and achieve the ultimate goal. For me it’s been quite a journey. I can’t tell you why I’ve always wanted to climb Kili, it’s not really a rational goal. I’m not a mountain climber, I’ve never been to Africa. But I’ve always wanted to go.
You may already know that Nas and I by this point should of already been to Kili, we should already have been able to claim the mountain and challenge as conquered. But some higher powers had others plans, during training preparations last year I went to a wedding, stood in Church and professed to not believing in God – the following morning whilst running I broke my ankle, quite badly.
SO, either God is a bit of a git and quite vengeful, my Pastafarian power above thought I was ill prepared, or it was just back luck, the opinions have made for many amusing conversations this year.
That’s brings us back to now, take 2!!
I had four objectives for this trip:
Raise enough money
Get fit enough
Get down to 100kgs
Climb the mountain
I am over the moon, a few days before the trip to have achieved the first 3.
Between us we’ve raised, 80’000 Dirham’s. A sterling effort from all involved, I once again extend my sincere thanks to every friend, family member, colleague and company that supported us. I will assure you now that It will go to a very good use, later on I shall show you the pictures following out trip to the charity and the kids this coming Friday
The getting fit enough and losing weight have gone hand in hand. Since about Feb I’ve trained every week, hard. I’m in better shape than I have been for a long time. Thanks go to Nas, who pushed me every step, joined me in every stupid idea and then dreamt up the next silly training session, and to Abs and Ameer who brought enthusiasm and comradery. Upping our game has made all the difference. Today I weigh 100.5kg, when I took my first measurement in March/April’ish I weighed in at 118.5, that’s 3 stone lost in the last few months, I can only imagine how much that’s going to help me once on the mountain. Nas put it into perspective this morning by saying that I could now carry our entire teams daypacks it would still only be what I weighed a few months ago.
So in the nature of adventure, in the name of charity, in the need to make a difference and in the spirit of an awesome challenge..................BRING IT ON
Ps Feel the loving embrace of His Noodly Appendage :)
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