'Washed Out' or 'All in for double fours'

Intense training was planned for the weekend of 22nd May - The girls are heading out to retackle CP1  - CP3 and the boys are off to play poker and drink beer in Kangaroo Valley!

First - the girls update: 

It rained, a lot, all week - but it didn't rain on the weekend so our intrepid team headed out to take on the track. 

It was wet, ridiculsously wet. The sort of wet that seeps into every seam and floods your shoes without even thinking about it. 

Damp but undaunted the girls completed CP1-CP2 despite the conditions, however, on looking to start CP2 - CP3 they came across a group of walkers who had to turn back at the bottom of the valley. 

Mindful that training walks don't have to be that nasty, and not having packed scuba gear the ladies called it quits and headed for a wine bar.

Second - the boys update:

It rained, a lot, all week - the traffic was crap, but on the upside the beer was cold and 'The Brothers of Matt' were playing the Friendly Inn and they were very good.

It wasn't just the walking team knocking the froth off a few cold ones, we were joined by one half of one of our major sponsorship partnerships - The Reids. James and Lesley have donated very generously to our fundraising (thanks guys!) and are also expecting a bub at allmost the same time we'll be walking the event - (congratulations!), either that, or its a very complex and expensive ruse to get out of walking 100km........

After 17 beers, half a bottle of Shiraz and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps James dazzled us all with his mathematical ability and godlike poker talents - 'betting the lot' on 'double fours' and a nine of diamonds(?) and losing magnificently. In a desperate scramble to recoup his stake James lost the only thing he had left - the naming rights to the newborn. 

We are expecting little 'Maxx Danger' Reid in late August.