Two Weeks To Go - The Countdown Begins

Am I nervous? Yes. Am I excited? Yes. I've been planning this Kilimanjaro/one challenge every month in my head for a while now and it's taken me months and months to commit to it. Once I signed up for the Three Peaks Challenge I decided that that would be my starting point. Now it's only two weeks until that first challenge and I'm starting to feel the pressure.

Although I know I am fitter than when I first started out because I can run for longer, lift heavier weights and walk up the stairs without getting out of breath (well some of them anyway!), in all honesty I don't feel as prepared as I would like to be. But then again, will I ever be? Who knows!

So in two weeks' time I will be setting out on the Three Peaks Challenge, climbing the highest mountains in the UK in 24 hours and I'm getting nervous. I'm not nervous that I won't be able to do it as I know that the team spirit and the thought of the children in Ghana will keep me going, I'm nervous that I'm going to find it really really tough and that that feeling will knock my confidence in being able to do the other challenges. I'm not the kind of person to give up but those that know me, know that I'm my own biggest critic and if I struggle with the first challenge I will seriously doubt my ability to complete the others.

What this means is that or the next two weeks I am going to be really focused on my training and put 110% into my physical training and also try and get the diet as strict as possible, at least until Three Peaks is over. Whilst I know that this first challenge is never going to be easy, I'm going to do all I can to train for it.

The scariest part of all of this is that once the first challenge is over, I know I will only have a few weeks to train for the next one and after the second, I'll have a few weeks to train for the third and before I know it I'll be half way up Kili!!