I've been looking forward to the Insomnia 24 Hour all year. Now it's almost here. My DH, friends and I have three teams and a solo entered. This is THE race that convinced me to forsake my "roadies only" policy and become a part-time mountain bike rider. I have been looking forward to it SO much!

And it's been raining NON-STOP for the last three days! It's going to be muddy and miserable! I've had a cold and I've shut my thumb (that'd be my SRAM shifter thumb) in the tailgate of the 4WD! I've just made a hole in the nail to drain out the blood (man that feels much better now!) but it's still going to be ouchy.

I can't believe after waiting for this race all year, that I am so unwell, wounded and under-prepared and it is going to have the sort of mud that just tears your legs off! What did I do? Spit at a nun or something?

How on earth am I going to find the fun in me to give this a go and get the team all excited? I'm usually the person in our group that does that!