Well it’s all over and this will be my last post.
Thanks to all those who have left positive comments about my blog. I’ve never done any sort of writing before and I have to say that, weary, dirty and tired though I was at the end of each day I have thoroughly enjoyed tapping away on my laptop each evening. It was a kind of release from the day and it’s nice to see that quite a few people have enjoyed reading my rantings.
I hope I’ve both managed to annoy and please people with various opinions and observations and that as many people disagree with me as agree. It’s hard sometimes being a loud-mouth but I’d like to thank Bob for giving me an outlet and putting up with some of the harsher parts of my entries. Thanks also to Charlie King who has been transferring my emails to the XC Mag website and has remained good-natured when I’ve subsequently complained about minor points of grammar or small mistakes in the layout when the text has been transferred between programs.
So, it’s off home tomorrow and back to Tignes in the French Alps (www.chaletchardons.com) where I live for some catching up on work and hopefully some skiing. The sun should be out and the miserable months of December and January when it’s often minus 20 at night will have gone, meaning I can dig out the deck chairs and have some seriously long lunches at the mountain restaurants. I think it will take a month or so to fully recover from the mental and physical stress of this event.
To show how it takes its toll I got on the scales this morning and found I’d lost 4 kilos over the course of the fortnight! ‘Fatty Hayman’ will be coming back as merely ‘Tubby Hayman’.
Cheers everybody and thanks for taking the time to read my often incoherent ramblings. I hope to do some more stuff for the magazine in the future should they be kind enough to print any of it.
To Team UK – Jamie, Russ, Wagga Watts, Kirsty, John the Air Marshal and Al, our Team Leader. ‘Cheers guys. It’s been emotional’
Mark H
