Jak just sent this to the SCU teams:

Tomorrow Di, Emma, Lisa and I are heading up the coast to get prepared for The Race which starts on Saturday.
I have been magnifying every twinge and ache in my mind, getting paranoid that I am going to pop out a kneecap or pull a ligament. However my stupendous Captain Di has covered all possibilities and arranged for us to get taped up to prevent us rolling ankles or twisting knees. Thank You Chris!!

Emma and I will try and keep everyone up to date via the Live Kokoda Updates (see the feed on the left of this page). Our Twitter names are, tregeagle and diemma.
If you would like to get mangled groans via a text message in the middle of the night, subscribe and be my guest.

We'll be finished this time next week! Holy cow!
The emails are starting to fly around the uni is writing articles about us and we're getting space in the local paper. We are all frantically making lists of stuff to do before the start. For example:

1. Monday - Arg! that's tomorrow.
2. Tuesday - Put together kit, be amazed by the amount of donations pouring in!!
3. Wednesday - Make sure gear is packed
4. Thursday - See physio, get ankle taped
5. Friday - 9am Heading up the coast
6. Saturday - 5.30am race registration opens. 7am race starts
7. Sunday - hopefully will finish the walk in under 32 hours and go eat and sleep at the Zenith not before having a much needed rest in the spa though.

You can track my teams (Southern Cross University Wanderers, team 66) progress

What a geek. Here I am, a night on the Razz at Cav Avenue on the Gold Coast without my family in tow... and what do I do? Go talk to my self on my blog, hello me.

After stacking my bicycle on Thursday night, like a fool (I'll let someone else share that story in the comments). I have been limping around like a pirate all weekend. I had to bunk off doing the Mini-Kokoda which really sucked. I feel like a limping piratical blob after having hung around all day.

Di, Emma and Lisa did the +30k walk like arctic explorers, they faced the hardships, conquered hills (despite grinding knee bones) all with a smile. Or possibly slightly insane grins... grimaces? Luckily nobody had to sacrifice themselves for the good of the expedition, unless you include me, but the girls just said it was because I was a wuss.

I just grabbed all the maps off the kokoda challenge website and printed a few copies off for Di, Emma and Chris. Lisa, I bagged all the pdf files up into a zip file which you can grab here.