September 2016 | Post 2
Phew what a view!
Being a glutton for punishment, when one of my colleagues, John, left a copy of the companies ‘charity challenge’ poster on my desk, I (almost) immediately signed up for the opportunity to spend a full day climbing mountains. Having also recruited our Team Leader Phil, myself and John met at the crack of dawn in Horton-In-Ribblesdale, registered and set off, taking our complimentary map and kit-kats. It was all going really well until we spotted the air-ambulance landing next to us on Pen-y-gent and we all started to spend a little bit more time concentrating on our footing!
Phil is clearly the fittest in the group with me and John bringing up the rear but given we’ve not done this before, we seem to be having a good stab at it and the chatting helps to help us forget about how far we still have to go. After the first checkpoint, we seem to have gone a bit off-map though and somehow end up in a marsh crossing scrubland somewhere near Simon Fell and end up aiming towards a series of heads, bobbing up and down behind a stone wall, to find the path again!
Just before we got back to the start line (and the pub next door) we realise we’ve just been overtaken by the team who have speed-walked up and over all three peaks!
I’m actually quite pleased with myself but we clearly need to put some work in before the next one!
Anyway, in case I didn’t have enough to worry about, I’ve just got a combined 50% on my Distributed Application Development assignments which although rated as ‘Good’ is not going to help me get that coveted 1:1 on my degree course, so I’ll need to double-down for next month.