Ke nako

Sitting in the SAA Lounge at OR Tambo international airport, 30 minutes to boarding the flight to Beijing. Super cool to be typing on my iPad and blogging about my great adventure. This past weekand especially the days were tough. Lots of last minute issues and worst of all, picked up a head cold on Saturday. Dosing myself with lots of vitamins and paracetamol and hoping for a quick recovery. But here I am...after all the training, the highs, the lows, the fear and the anticipation, it is finally time. Ke nako.

Scarcited

Nine days to the big event. I just had a look at the website again and my toes started curling. The climbs look scary. Fear struck me. I am scarcited. Excited and scared all in one. Flight is on Monday the 15th at midnight and with that the long trek will begin. First the 14 hour flight to Beijing then the trip to the wall. I am happily planning to have iPad access and through all of this hope to be connected enough to post memories. Training has gone well, no injuries, no colds, no real issues with training on my own: everybody just helped where they could and here I am soon to be: "Bella the international marathon runner"