Bob in the Desert

SO nearly there, then… this time next week I’ll be out of touch, somewhere in Morocco.  Seems to have come around really quickly – it’s not that long ago that I thought shall I… shan’t I… before having a Nike swoosh moment and telling myself ‘Just do it’ and signing up for the trek.

Touch wood, the gout problem is fading, today was the first time I have managed to walk without having any kind of pain so that has to be a good sign.  Tomorrow I’ll try a bit of distance walking to see how it goes.  I have a cocktail of drugs and natural remedies to get me through, and at the end of the day it’s going to be a case of mind over matter.  There is no way I am not going, and no way that I am not going to finish.

What’s the alternative anyway!  It’s not as if I can sit there and wait for it to pass, is it!

Last weekend all my family came down which was great, we had a bit of an early send-off dinner which would have been all the better had I not been suffering from huge bolts of gout-inflicted agony.  Next week I am working until Thursday and then packing a few‘t’ shirts and pairs of shorts - anything else is going to be pretty superfluous I reckon.   But bring it on I say.

It’s going to be a bit weird being out of touch with everything and everyone, it’s the first time I will have been away from my family for any length of time for a start. My other half did ask me the other day if I was going to miss anything, my answer of Leicester away and Wasps at home was probably not the right one though.  That drew the classic laser-beam stare that all women are born with.

On brighter news, the sponsorship will go through £6,000 this weekend, helped in no small part by over £280 raised at the quiz on Thursday and another £230-odd raised by Fred, my father-in-law who talked people around his village into making donations. 

To think when I signed up that I was worried about reaching the go/no go target of £2k…

If I don’t get a chance to update this before I go, thanks to everyone who has supported me financially or otherwise.  Together we have done a great thing – all I have to do now is go for a bit of a stroll in the sunshine.

How hard can that be… J