Just Keep Going

Once again the week's been busy with work, life seems to be a constant battle between doing what we really want to do and making sure by doing that we're not still going to be working until we're in our 90's to get by! It's all good though, pressure's starting to ease for me at work as of tomorrow (hopefully) which may just leave me to focus a tiny bit more on our goal of getting in shape to climb Mont Blanc.

It's hard to know if what you're doing is enough, I mean we would certainly like to be doing a little bit more than we currently are but have both had a lot on our plates lately. We didn't go to the altitude chamber this week on Tuesday, still feeling a bit wrecked from our run around Narrabeen lake, but did on Thursday which was actually our wedding anniversary. There's no better way to celebrate 5 years of marriage than struggling to breathe while sweating buckets on a treadmill in a very small room with the air pressure equivalent to 4000m altitude I find! Don't worry we did go out for dinner on Friday as well.

So at least we did do something during the week this week, but with only four and a half weeks to go until we fly to Europe I think we could do with stepping it up a little.

We did still do our weekend training session this week too. We were originally planning on another walk in the Blue Mountains but thought we'd go a bit closer to home instead. Have had a window open on my iPad for ages now of the Mount Kuring Gai to Cowan walk (via Berowra Waters) so thought we'd give it a go.

The walk starts and finishes at train stations which is pretty handy when doing a one way walk. Mai's watch had it as about 18kms (although website said 17.2kms), either way we completed it in around 5 hours. There was quite a lot of up and down which was good, not quite as steep as a lot of trails in the Blue Mountains but still some good hills that got the legs pumping. Was nice to see a wild area so close to Sydney that we'd never really been to before.

If nothing else training for Mont Blanc has been a great excuse to go and do a lot of really great day walks in and around Sydney that we might never have done otherwise! Mai was struggling a bit today but did really well to push through and get it done, particularly as the last 2kms we were practically sprinting to make sure we didn't miss our train. I think mental conditioning is just as important as physical for us at the moment and being able to keep going when things are getting tough is exactly the kind of mindset we are going to need when we're on the mountain in July.