With Kili only 3 weeks ago, my final fitness preparation is to extend the distance I cover on my regular runs.  Just to build a bit more stamina and as much strength in my legs as possible. As a regular runner, I am used to good days and bad days – sometimes I feel like Mo Farah, sometimes I feel as if I am just continually running uphill and in to the wind. This Saturday was a bad day and I felt I was running through treacle.  I also had a fuzzy head – perhaps the result of the red wine from the night before. I was struggling but then realised that this was in fact ideal training for Kili – a sore head and finding it hard to go at my normal pace is something I will definitely be experiencing in 3 weeks time! So I tried to take a little positive and even a little pleasure out of my pain as I plodded along to my destination – Billericay!  Having reached Billericay (and the sign pictured above) I then realised I now had to run all the way home too – perhaps for the Ascenders they might sympathise with getting to your destination and then realising they have to get back again!  However I think the similarities with Kili then end there – Billericay is a town in Essex 28 miles east of London and perhaps most notably it stands just 90 metres above sea level!