After a year of planning, fundraising and training, its time to head off to Peru to do the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. This evening I catch the train to London for a nice nights sleep on the hard floor at Heathrow! Then tomorrow I head off at around 7pm (meaning a 4:30/5am check in) to Madrid, followed by a lay over for a couple of hours before doing a 12 hour flight to Lima, where I get to stay a night before heading on another flight to Cusco. So today I have been putting together my bag which isn't easy as trying to get to the 15kg allowance is tricky...but I am within a kilo so I am hoping I can get away with it!...
Anyway...
Training: This weeks training has been lovely, since it has dramatically dropped off so I only did a couple of hour walks (including a nice stroll along the seafront this morning!) and a 3 and half hour to Dawlish Warren and back on Monday. The general idea was not to over train in the last couple of weeks and to have some rest before heading off.
Fundraising: Last weekend I took out the Stocks again, had some homemade cakes made up by a friend for a "going away" weekend. It didn't go as planned, first none of the Shelterbox equipment arrived (not a major problem, as it might have been needed at a larger event), but more importantly it was a dreary damp cold day and there wasn't as many people on the seafront as I would have liked. Dad and me did however allow ourselves to be blasted with wet sponges by those people that were there.
The good thing is however that I was able to send off over £625 a few days ago due to all the donations and last minute sponsorship in the past couple of weeks. The customers at East Cliff Cafe have been very generous in popping their change into the buckets and its all adding up, hopefully by the time I come home there will be even more to send off.
I will be trying to update the blog & facebook while I am away, however it might be more difficult during the actual trek itself (I don't imagine I can get too much O2 coverage there!)
Anyway....thank you all for your support!
If you still haven't sponsored me, you can do it at www.justgiving.co.uk/rogerpalmer
And if your waiting for me to complete the Inca Trail before sponsoring, no problems....you'll hear it here first.
