So its been a bit, but trust me things over on this side of the pond have been insane. For starters I am revising, revising, revising, which is the famous words of my dear friend Minal, "it's what the British call cramming." However, last week I was able to make it to Yorkshire for the Oxfam 100 km "walk" a walk I took as a joke. We had three teams going, and two of the teams went on weekend trips "walking" they were "training" my team well we were chillin. We took it so not serious that we did not even think that starting at 7:00am like the rest of the teams was necessary I mean come on now we need our beauty sleep. So after barely making it through registration since we did not have any of the "proper tools, i mean who needs tools for a walk. The trek tornado's when to sleep in prep for the walk. The walk started and at first it was nice. Check point one came and went. Then came the mountains, why not just one but 2 700m mountain where is the walking in hiking mountains. I still cannot answer that question. So two mountains, and 50 km later, my knee gave out and I was out for the count, and devastated at having to leave my two wonderful teammates that I was bonding with. However, they made it through...Walked a total of 30 hours no sleep, and all. Our team made it to the finish line in 30.40 (40 extra carrying me after injury) lack of equipment, lost of a teammate. We did it. The trek tornadoes proved everyone wrong, we bonded, we worked through an injury and we celebrated at the finish line. New friendships and all, so now its back to revising, back to PT, but feeling like a whole new different person for preserving and not letting go to the very end, till my knee was shatter what is a little pain for a good cause, and memories that will last a lifetime. The sites that I saw at the top of the mountains were breathe taking and no injury will ever take that away, to life, good friends and wonderful memories.
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