Ten days to go. Ten days until we start hiking 100km across mountains, through forests and valleys and try to dodge giant mosquitoes at 3 o'clock in the morning. It feels like it was only last week that our team decided to do this thing and we were sitting in my apartment working out the details of our walk at our first team meeting. Now we're finalising our preparations, deciding what to pack and psyching ourselves up for the biggest physical and mental challenge of our lives.

What am I getting myself into?

I must confess, during the last couple of weeks I've let myself go a bit. It was Golden Week, Ted visited and, yes, we played computer games and watched movies, but we also go out and about, exploring Hiroshima, Nara and scaring ourselves at the haunted Hospital at Fuji Q. It was a busy two weeks and unfortunately I didn't get any running in... I'm making up for it this week. I've also had skin problems that I'm a bit worried about and resulted in seeing a crazy doctor last week who wore two face masks. A bit of overkill, I think.

Anyway, I think things are on track. I'm feeling good and I think I'm mentally prepared. Hiking checkpoints four to seven the other week really helped and I'm looking forward to hearing about the other parts of the hike when I see Jessie this weekend.

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