Hell&Back – before signup

After seeing so many people’s Facebook pictures after doing Hell & Back It just looked like such great craic that I all I could think was I want a piece of that. I  had a road to Damascus moment about three years ago and have been going to the gym since then but I’ve never actually trained with a specific goal in mind other than to desperately claw back a few of the years I’m sure I took off the end of me life after a pretty adventurous youth.

I have a gym where I work and they offer classes at lunchtime and after work (Spin, Kettlebells, Rip60 and the like), when I get bored doing  those for a few weeks I usually work out a gym/cardio routine for a few weeks. There’s a few colleagues I train with on and off but generally there’s a core of four of us who are the real health nuts. To be fair all four of us are, like me, converts to health relatively later in life (We’re all 35 -40).

So when I was browsing Facebook in bed last Saturday morning and the brilliant and hopefully not regrettable idea of doing H&B the first thing I thought was “let’s get the band back together for this”. I sent out three text messages and got back three replies all along the lines of sounds great but I insert lame cop-out here. Thankfully before the third excuse came in I had already said feck it and enrolled online.

To be fair me gym buddies are all very supportive and in the back of me mind I’m positive that when they see me covered in muck on Facebook there’ll be no power on earth that’ll keep them from the next one. It looks like such a good experience I would love to share it with the people I’ve shared so many team experiences with but I have to admit they’re something a bit liberating about going it alone like a pioneer – the loneliness of the long distance runner and all that.