1 Sleep and Counting

Tomorrow morning I'm going to be taking a bit of a stroll in the countryside with a few friends... And by stroll, of course, I mean a grueling 100km hike through rugged, hilly bush.

My head is buzzing with preparations - have I packed enough clean pairs of socks? Do I have enough gatorade for the whole thing? Have I eaten enough carbs? How much carbohydrate is in a banana? an apple? a potato? (According to the AIS guidelines for pre-event eating, I would have to eat about 4kgs of potatoes today to get enough carbohydrate... that's pushing it, even for me).

We've trained and prepared as much as we can, and we're all desperately hoping that it will be enough. At the same time, we are fairly certain that no amount of training would ever be enough for this event, and that the only thing that will get us through is sheer stubbornness and massive quantities of nurofen plus. And the knowledge that we're doing this for a good cause.

To those of you who have already donated: Thank you, thank you, thank you. With your help, our team has raised enough money to set up a pump to provide water for a Sudanese village. (I'm worried about gatorade... too many people don't even have water).

To those of you who haven't yet donated: Come on.... it's a good cause. If I can walk 100km, surely you can give up a few bucks! And it's tax deductible!

Go here:
http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Melbourne/team/134

click on "donate to our team" and be generous. And thank you.

We start tomorrow morning at 8:30am, and during the day and night you can follow our progress on the live results tracker at:

http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Melbourne/

We'll (hopefully) be sending updates from the trail via SMS - just look for the
Moovettes.

So...
Socks: Check
Gatorade: Check
Snacks: Check
Sanity: Checked at the door. It isn't recommended for this event.

Wish me luck,
Kath.