I want to start by saying sorry to all of those that missed my little write ups. My co-challenger David Skinner was doing such a good job I didn’t think it would be missed. I have no excuses but more of an explanation and it is as easy as LIFE.Those who know me can tell you I think I can do it all. So I went back to work at Arnolds on the 6pm to midnight shift. After a week of no gym I said ‘hey chick you better do something because it’s not only about you’.I was part of a team so I thought if I wasn’t there then someone else could have a better chance of staying in. After talking to my trainers I felt a whole lot better and thought I was back on track. I was cool working nights and on my off nights going to the gym (ya I could have come in the morning but then I would have been sleeping at my day job desk).Then bam! I couldn’t move one morning. I was sick and I’m not a person that gets sick. At least not lay in your bed sick. I’m usually a go to work, cook, dinner, and keep on going type of sick person, but not this time. So that was that and I tried to get back on track with this writing, work and gym, but felt just too burnt out.I came into the elimination thinking ‘It’s been a good run; you can now do it at your own pace, but be sure you keep it up. Don’t be upset, you have lost 20lbs and you did it so feel good, keep a smile on your face and be glad you don’t have to do HELL WEEKEND! You never know who reads your little article in the paper or who votes for you and you how you are affecting people on a whole with what you do on TV’.As short as the TV part of the Challenge is, so many people watch and talk about it. I know because of the people that approach me in Hamilton or anywhere I may be. Well I definitely now know that reality TV is just that because Hell Weekend was pure hell. The night before we had to go, I had very little sleep and all I could think was ‘are you out of your mind?’ You did this before (the army life long ago) and you didn’t like it then! What the Sam hill am I doing now?Any way here it is six in the morning and I’m on my way to Warwick Camp and my mind is running left then right. What was this weekend going to be like, will I be able to do what they were going to want me to do?” So many things were going through my head. Were the people that weren’t here better than me and shouldn’t they be here instead of me. So much was on my mind I was a little stir crazy for a minute I just hope I could get through this weekend.I’m going to start by saying ‘thank you’ to all of the staff at Warwick Camp who took great care of us for the time that we were there. Big shout out to Major Julian Wheddon (Head honcho) Warrant Officer Fred Oldenburg Team Magnum leader; Colour Sergeant Gavaska Lodge, Team Sandy’s 360 leader, and Colour Sergeant Sergo White, Team Sea View leader, as well as Colour Sergeant Luis Pereira who put it all together.We started out with an assault course by going under a heavy rope and running, then run to and under a ramp, through tires, more running to an low crawling something (I don’t even know what to call it), more running to a stationary barrel that we had to go over and again more running, this time over a big rocky hill and through some bushes down a hill and through the last obstacle over three more smaller barrels to the finish.We had to do this nonstop for 45 minutes. God help us, after that we had three ‘mind’ games to do for rest period. They too were hard, the first one was three poles with six numbered tyres stacked which had to be moved from one end to another in the same order. Then we had to move through an acid lake carrying a heavy gas container without getting burned by acid. After that we had a little fun being blind folded and trusting our co-challenger by letting them lead us into a pen with only their voice directing you.We then had lunch and a little rest, thank goodness - because after that we had Killmanjaro. Not just walking up but having to carry heavy (s…) up it. Each step was painful hot and completely miserable. After the third time I didn’t even know my own name and had enough. I guess they figured we would be out of it so they broke it down for us and gave us a little less to do after.We had a little shooting competition and the mild version of the Army obstacle course. This consisted of running across electricity poles, under barbed wired, through sand pits up and over wooden hurdles, over an 8ft wall, up and scaling a tight rope (it gets worse). We then proceeded over more telephone poles, dropped and ran to a balancing maze that was about 5ft off the ground, swung across a moat, then through a combat tunnel running up and over a hill and a running finish. I thought after that we were finished for the day. What more could we ask our bodies to do? We did get a break, which was not too long but good enough. We ate and rested some more, but we were not finished and had a little more to do before we could go to sleep.After that we went to the beach and played a game of Frisbee football and then a game of ‘get my ribbons’ and finally a real game of one goal football. We figured that was really it, but of course that was still not the case. We underwent night navigation which meant we were dropped off at night in the Horseshoe Bay parking lot with some directions and a compass to get back to camp on your own (leader was just there only to ensure that we did not get lost). To close the evening we watched a black and white movie for an hour called ‘12 Angry Men’ .Our night finally ended at 12.30am, only to awake again at 7am with flash and boom. Before we left that day we had a few more tasks, one of which was PT. This included a freezing cold morning swim, followed by breakfast then a room inspection. The last order of the day was a six-mile run/walk through the Warwick railway trail. I didn’t think I had it in me to do this, but I finished.With that weekend ending, I now feel there is nothing that I cannot do. All of us should feel very proud of ourselves as it was surely the biggest challenge we have put our bodies through. High praises to the 100-Day Challengers 2011 as we are the best.