The day before

I should be sleeping right now. Not because I'm partial to an afternoon nap, but because I, along with Sarah, am covering the election tonight. We start work at 11pm and don't know what time we'll finish. The mini bus leaves for Scotland at 8.30am tomorrow and we have to be at the CPC Centre to meet the others at 8am so we might have to go straight from the office. Eek! We are praying there won't have to be a re-count! If there is, our boss has kindly offered to step in - to cover the election result, not climb the 3 peaks (she was quick to point this out when she made the offer earlier this week!)

The final day before our challenge started badly for me. I woke up at 8.18am - I'm meant to start work at 8am! And it was deadline day. So after a frantic call to the office, I managed to wash, dress and drive to work in 20 minutes flat, not bad going really but not exactly the best way to start the day.

Sarah and I finished work at noon and both went our separate ways to do some last minute shopping - Sarah, with Keyan in tow, to buy food and a wick away t-shirt, me to get some very attractive thermal leggings.

Our personal trainer Demian left a very thoughtful message for us this morning telling us we all need to 'carb-up' today. So I took his advice and had pasta for lunch before heading off to bed. But after several hours of being tucked up under the duvet in an eye mask, trying to ignore the traffic noise and constantly checking off a mental list of things to pack, I have given up.

So when you climbing into bed tonight, please spare a thought for Sarah and I who will be spending our night waiting for the election results to come in, then trying to beat off journalists from Sky and the BBC to get interviews with the winners/losers, before heading back to the office to type them up, all the while trying not to worry about our challenge ahead.

Oh and finally, please spare a thought for Keyan, who might have the toughest job of all. He may not be up all night covering the election but he will have to deal with two very grumpy, sleep deprived women who will be blaming him for making them sign up to climb three mountains in the first place!

Jenni