Training Log Archive: SarahD

Take 2 on south Etive hills with HD - Glas Beinn Mhor, Beinn Nan Aighenan & Ben Starav. Much brighter looking morning. Dried up, mild and relatively calm, in the valley bottom at least. Stream level had dropped a huge amount since previous day too, though still a white water raging torrent! However, for the first time, the body really didn’t want to get going. It was a massive struggle to wake and get up at 3am, and my head couldn’t contemplate what was to come. This was my biggest mental test yet, but I kept trying to tell myself it was mind over matter and just had to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I did, and it worked, and though I perhaps didn’t appreciate these hills as much as they deserved I did eventually find some happiness in being up there. Thankfully the rain stayed off, the wind was only blowing us over for some of the time, and the clag occasionally cleared out to give some atmospheric views!
Relieved to get through this one.