Rise to the challenge
Nicky Hunter kicks butt - but only to a point, as she explains.
I like to think I'm up to a fitness challenge - I kick butt (well a punch bag) every week at kickboxing and spend most of my spare time in the gym.
But even I treated with caution an e-mail which landed in my in box from a colleague recently - the Three Peaks Challenge.
The website gives an outline of timings for the day: five hours for Ben Nevis, five hours for Scafell Pike and four hours for Snowdon. Then it recommends driving between each mountain can take up to 10 hours altogether.
Now I'm no Carol Vorderman but that sounds like a whole 24 hours of torture to me. Plus it's never good when super fit mates have taken part in the past and reported back about how tough they found it.
At the time of going to press (or the website equivalent), we're still debating whether to go for it. A group of us could barely make it to Hilbre Island the other week without turning back because of the puddles of water. On the plus side, it would be fantastic for camaraderie with fellow colleagues and clients as you break through the pain barrier together.
But hands up to those who have already risen to fitness challenges including Paver Smith clients Mark Shipley, of Shipley Solicitors, and Paul Barrow, of Quinn Barrow, who took part in the New York marathon - an achievement most of us would only think or talk about.
Some of our own have a track record of hauling themselves up mountains for Claire House Children's Hospice, so I suspect there may be some internal pressure to go for this.
Raising money for charity is what it's all about, of course, as well as the personal goal and subsequent achievement (hopefully) so really that leaves no excuse - oops I think I've just talked myself into it.
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