Its almost time for the off!!

Today we had our last big training session - a half marathon run along the river Thames in London - 13 miles completed in 1h 50 mins. Chrissie was unfortunately asked to come in to work ( on a saturday - damn those big city law firms!) so was unable to come with us (clever ruse to get out of running...) but we toasted her memory on the way round from Putney Bridge to Kew Bridge and back.

Last weekend the team was up in Cambridge and we went for a long biking session - a 60 km bike ride from Cambridge to Ely and back in about 3 and a half hours (with a cheeky stop for tea and cake at Ely Cathedral tea rooms!). Then onto watch Chrissie's younger sister in the Varsity Lacrosse match. On the sunday we took to the streets again with a 14km run before all heading back to London.

We feel ready and fit to go. The training slows down now in the week before the off - just some simple stretching and walking to keep everything moving and to prevent stiffness creeping in. This time next week we will be somewhere over the Atlantic on our way to San Jose!

There's just a few items of kit yet to find..... !

There wont be any blogs while we are out there unfortunately (funny that - no internet connection in the jungle/mountains...) but will report when we get back with some of the pictures and of course there will be the movie of the whole experience to watch at our thank you party later in the year!

Look after yourselves and give us a thought or two from Saturday 17th - Monday 26th!
Mxx