And So Back to the Grind

A Little Teaser of Shots to Come

It has been a while since my last update... in my defence, I've been busy (mainly defrosting my fingers which, after two weeks, are a little tender, but much improved since dancing with Mr Frostnip).

Progress report: took a week off training after I returned. Last week I kicked off my training with some steady runs. There was a minor niggle in the form of still cold toes that took a good twenty minutes to warm up. They're good now.

The push for more charitable donations goes on. First I...'d like to thank those of you have donated or are planning to - much appreciated. Something I'm hoping will spark more interest are some planned interviews with both TV and radio (local mainly, but with the potential to reach right across the county, and further). I'll post any links here.

Final stages of the plan are coming together now. I ordered myself an outrageously warm down jacket... you know why! I'll be running a few more kits tests (mainly checking on the ability to tweet and update blog posts via satellite - can't do FB as a change to their API broke the Iridium interface. For non-techies, that means Facebook wrecked my plans to post to the site from the north pole).

Other thoughts... oh yeah, five weeks and I'll be flying out to Svalbard for a few days acclimatisation before heading up to Barneo ice station. FIVE WEEKS! Oh fark!

One more thing - I'm currently consulting for a spread betting firm, called IG and they've picked up on my trip and are running an internal comms plan to help bolster the effort. I am pretty bloody happy with that.

Right. I'm done for tonight - it was another tyre pulling session.

I'll be back soon with some photos of the beautiful Finse region of Norway.