Finally I got a chance to let this sink in. Out of all pictures taken throughout the journey this is one of my favourites. We made it as a team. I thought we would cry, but tiredness overshadowed our inner feelings. This was my 3rd walk. After the 2nd trailwalker experience 4 years ago I was surprised I chose to do this again. It all started with a random lunch conversation and a team was formed without thorough thoughts, and we registered. Throughout our preparation and training, I thank God that He has provided us with different brothers and friends, joining us to train and allowing us to have some deep and meaningful, sometime spiritual conversations on the trails. So, after months of preparation and trainings, we made it. Our team didn't aim for speed (in fact we were very slow, 39 hrs), but we aim to reach the final spot as a team of 4+1 and we made it. I must admit that I didn't have the highest hope to finish the whole course as a team of 4 (I never say it out but it's inside my heart and mind) but this journey has taught me some worthy lessons: 1. Do not underestimate others 2. The balance between achieving personal goal vs doing it as a team. I had learnt this in a hard way in my previous walk - I tried to not think about it but the memory always hit me hard whenever I put my feet on the trails.. allow me to use this opportunity to apologise to my previous teammates (2013). "I am deeply sorry, because I had chosen personal goal over team spirit. Please forgive me if my selfishness had hurt you and our relationship." I also want to take this opportunity to say thank you to our support crews. Without you, we couldn't make it. Thanks for getting up early/staying late to feed us, take care of us and even for some of you, walked with us. We are blessed to have you guys to journey with us for the last 10+ months. Finally, to my teammates, thank God for providing us opportunities to stick together to walk, to share and to snack after training. Thank you for opening up, trusting and supporting each other for the last 10 months. I hope our brotherhood get strengthen after this event and I love you all. #Oxfamtrailwalker2017 #mylastwords
