The final 4 weeks are here. How are we all feeling....well, it depends which team member you ask and on which day. There are varying degrees of anxiousness, varying degrees of nausea and also varying degrees of disbelief that we are actually going to go through with this challenge. It was summed up for me personally when an associate (several years younger than me, please note) proudly told me recently that she was training to take part in an event to walk the Yorkshire 3 Peaks - 26 miles in 12 hours. When I then told her our challenge, she simply said "Are you mad?" And are we? Who knows.
I am convinced we will all get so much more out of taking part in this than just completing the 100km in 30 hrs. As a team, we went into this with dubious fitness levels between us, a half-hearted belief that we could finish and a great desire to raise a few quid for a good cause. Its so much more now.
We've grown together as we've trained together; we've learned more about team work and more about ourselves as individuals. We've proved that you can motivate others to give their hard earned cash to a good cause. We've come to believe in ourselves.
The ultimate achievement will be finishing together and we all sincerely believe we can. As one team member has said...."I will crawl across that finish line if I have to". That's what you call dedication to the cause.
So, in the words of that famous Europe song...."Will things ever be the same again?"
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