Seriously?
OK, so I put myself forward for the One Big Climb expecting to have to deal with a few challenges (and I'm now talking about the one's Kenny - our trainer - has laid down for us), but I wasn't quite prepared for what Italy was going to throw at me.
OK, so I put myself forward for the One Big Climb expecting to have to deal with a few challenges (and I'm now talking about the one's Kenny - our trainer - has laid down for us), but I wasn't quite prepared for what Italy was going to throw at me.
I'm over here picking up my wife and daughter on my way back from meetings in Australia and spending a few days with the in-laws and enjoying some fabulous Italian home cooking (the wife is Italian in case that needed explanation). So I thought I'd set myself a goal of a two hour walk a day to break in my new boots - the ones which will all being well, get me up to, and a bit beyond Everest base camp in November.
It's a one street 'town' here and everyone knows everyone so the fact that I am seen to be walking around the village in thick wolly socks and hiking boots whilst pushing his 5 month old daughter in her pram causes much amusement.
But today, I was done for. When I left home it was over 35 degrees centigrade and by the time I got back it was 49! I kid you not. In the UK 49 farenheit is acceptable in the winter months, but here it's centigrade and it's something to behold. It's painful.
The closest I got to training for Everest today was taking refuge in the ice-cream shop in the main street............
About the Author
Hi there, I'm Duncan Goose the founder of Global Ethics, the company behind the One brand and I'm really delighted that occasionally I get to jot down a few thoughts here on our blog. My background is in marketing but the catalyst for creating Global Ethics happened as a result of a two year motorbike trip around the world between '98 and 2000.
It was an amazing odyssey and I was fortunate to have people all over the world take me under their wing when it went wrong - as it sometimes did. I learnt a lot about humanity and about the kindness of strangers.
When I left, I knew 3 neighbours in my street in London, and having just moved in London again, I've made a point of getting to know all of them. I often say that if you knew a neighbour in your street was starving, or dying of HIV, you'd do something to help them and this is kind of what One has started to do - abeit on a global scale. We're all neighbours, but sometimes we just don't realise it.
We're changing lives, one person, one day at a time. It's a legacy project - but one we can all be part of.
And it's hugely exciting.
