Well, this is it!! I'm leaving for the airport in about an hours time and am trying to stay calm. I was surprised that I actually had a good sleep last night but feel a bit queezy this morning. Partly nervousness and partly from excitement!!
I have closed the bags so hopefully I have remembered everything!! I am planning to meet Catherine at 12 noon, our flight for Madrid leaves at 2.30pm. We don't fly out of Madrid 'til 11.25pm tonight for the 9.5hr journey to Santiago Chile, where we have a 10hr stop-over before our last flight in to Calama where we should arrive at 10.30pm tomorrow night (Thursday). I must say I am not looking forward to the long delays in between flights but, hey ho, we just have to deal with it!!
On a brighter note, we got our 'Tent Assignments' the other day and Catherine and myself are sharing with SIX men. The fact that there are only two women and six men in the tent was not a surprise to either of us as, with any of these events, only about 20% of competitors are female. Actually on this event, there are 110 competitors and only 21 of those are female. But, after reading the bios of the other competitors in the tent we have no less than THREE doctors from Switzerland !! So, I guess we're sorted for the week as regards medical help. We are also sharing with an IT consultant, a construction expert AND an Austrian commedian,
so should be an interesting week!! By the way, I am the only Irish person taking part so will be proudly flying the Tricolour from my backpack and letting everyone know that..
Thank you all for your support so far, for listening to me going on about food, counting calories, all I have to carry etc etc and for the donations so far to the House of Hope. I hope I will have lots of tales to tell when I get back and hopefully won't be boring you all too much.
Wish me luck xx
My thought for the day is,,,, 'Any limitations we have--we set upon ourselves!! if you THINK you can only run 5K then you will only run 5K, it's where you set those goals!! there really are no boundries' and with that thought in mind I head off to tackle 'The Driest Place on Earth'
