Nerves beginning to show ....

5 weeks and ticking ... and yes, the team are beginning to show all the signs of nerves. Mike is pacing the lakes and training hard on the stepper at the gym, Rog is walking the mighty hills of Cambridgeshire, Jules does this for a living so he’s fine and Matt (the donkey) makes up lack of training with bloody-mindedness refusal to surrender to pain.

However, the signs are there … e-mail traffic on the up, nervous laughter, twitching body language, fake injuries and what’s more, yes the truth … the hills are calling, pain beckoning. Cometh the hour … cometh the man.

Me nervous! Tick follow tock follows tick follow tock … the day approaches