It's how close?

Although I haven’t been reporting every bit of exercise I’ve been doing in my weekly blogs, we’ve been keeping up our usual training regime every week for the past 6 months:

- Monday (Spinning session & Gym)
- Tuesday (Smaller walk – 2 to 3 hours)
- Wednesday (College)
- Thursday (Hockey training)
- Friday (Gym)
- Saturday (Hockey game)
- Sunday (Long walk – generally 5+ hours)

For Tuesdays walk we decided to do the part of the first section of the Parish walk, starting at the NSC, through the access road to Marown church. Then on to the Mount Murray via the Newtown road, returning to the NSC, approximately 10/11 miles.

A big part of the plan has been related to hockey, which has now sadly come to an end due to the end of the season. This week we replaced the hockey training on Thursday with a welcome return to playing squash, unfortunately after a break from playing, I still suck at it!

On Saturday I went into town to scout out some of the equipment I’ll need for the Kili trip, there’s an awful lot of it, and quite a lot of the items are things that I can’t really see myself using (well, hopefully not) after the trip, such as head torches, gaiters, sleeping bag liners, trekking poles etc! It’s a good thing I haven’t been drinking or getting takeaways for the past month as I might actually be able to afford some of this stuff :).

Sundays walk was another trek down south, starting at the hallowed Sloc, walking as fast we could we travelled via Ronague via Colby & then Gansay & the back road of Port St Mary back to Port Erin, grabbing another ice cream & returning to the bottom of the Sloc.

This walk wasn’t as big as our usual efforts, concentrating more on speed & trying to keep ourselves in one shape & not pick up any injuries before we set off for our trip! It’s getting scarily close to the events now!