Saturday 19 July 2008

The Struggle

Afternoon all!

So last time I wrote a post, I was watching Nadal and Fedderer's epic 5 setter - I was obviously getting into the spirit of things as I felt at the end of that match that anything is achievable. Physically I mean.

Those 2 nutters train everyday all year round and have the time to perfect their strength, technique, stamina etc to improve their overall game. We, the Everest lot, have to fit in all our fitness around our usual lives. I'm sure most of the 50 or so of us have going have never endevoured in such a big commitment of time and imput - a years worth of involvement in 1 project is a massive undertaking - I'm still coming to turns with it!

And I love it!

I love the fact that we have so much to do, all of us. We HAVE to work as a team. We HAVE to get on with each other, or this idea wont work. And we'll look very very silly. I famously have quite a big mouth and I've told everyone I know and their dog about Everest and our struggle for greatness. Imagine if we didn't get round to it! Or couldn't be arsed after a month or 2 of being on board. Silly silly faces!

So, we struggle on, raising awareness, hopefully raising some cash. Inspiring people. Impessing people! There's nothing wrong with that i dont think - the more we inspire (intimidate even!) the more we can change things. Thats awesome. People should feel they want to join something after hearing about us. Thats one goal I want to achieve.

Sunday 6 July 2008

I wanna be like Rafa

Hello and welcome to my first attempt at creative personal writing since the age of 11! Should be about the same standard

So we've been asked to start a little blog about theeverest.com and all that it entails...I'm not going to bore you with the history of it all and what and why we 50 few are trekking to the highest montain in the world to play a spot of twenty20 - I'm going to bore you instead with my personal journey over the next 9 months from feeble mortal to Rafa-like powerhouse. (I'm watching the Wimbledon final and getting some inspiration from Nadal's shear strength - what does he feed those pythons?!?)

I, like everyone else, have been on board for almost 3 months - getting more and more excited and more and more scared about the roles we are all undertaking. I'm in charge of shooting a documentary of all our progress over the next year and also whilst we're up there. Paul Stadden is my other half on this and we have a few ideas about how to keep this fresh, inspirational and funny. Almost everything this blog isn't!

As well as the doc, I thought a good way to build up some momentum and interest, and just cos its awesome, is to shoot a Team Hilary music video, with the 15 or so us us pissing about trying to either cover Vanilla Ice's seminal work "Ice Ice Baby" or indeed, The Zutons "Valerie", a track who's sole inclusion was that we could replace the title with our own, Hilary. There's much method in our madness as you can see.

Well as an introduction to me and our struggle for greatness, please except this 1st stab at cohesive thought as acceptable, and if you stopped reading 25 lines ago, I dont you blame you!

Next time - fitness, and my lack of it.....

M