hi all, it was a tense moment at 6am this morning, i was up from 4am and had set three alarms to make sure i didnt oversleep.
kokoda challenge had offered 100 previous teams the opportunity of pre registering early before the offical registration in feb. i was determined to get in early and filled in the form online as quick as possible, but when going to pay it kept saying a fatal error, but knew our team details had saved. so i phoned them at 6.30am and someone answered and said that this was happening as it was already full and we may not have gotten through, i was very down about it and felt responsible for the team. but got an email latter in the morning saying there had been an error and we were registered, to make the payment and we are now team 21 (better than last year as team 26).
so now the fun begins in insuring we are fit and ready for the 96km, i think i have some left over injuries from last year, so this will be my final attempt (please hold me to it) as i think the training does put some permanent damage to this aging body and hope it can make it through this time.
last saturday we went to mt cootha for a training session (5hrs) thought it would be a breeze but mt cootha (the gap towards mt nebo) is fairly tough and got a good work out, even went up the kokoda track, which i thought was pretty easy until it keeps kicking up steeper and steeper, so plan is to go again this weekend and add some more tracks.
harrison is on holidays so the next training on the track is 29th jan (doing the first two mountains) about 18km so will be a good test.
i noticed on the website it says there are some new twists to the course, so looking forward to seeing what it is, bottom line it means steeper hills for sure.
keep you posted
dee
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