Our day out with the Queen's Gurkha Signals Regiment - Part 3

After our morning activities, lunch was served at precisely 12:35. This was, as had been promised, a Gurkha curry (lamb, chicken or both) with vegetables, rice and poppadums, which was almost worth the 300 mile round trip in itself!

Mmmmm!

Inspiration for famous Madonna song...."Poppadum Preach!"

The portions were plentiful, and there was nothing to stop us from having "seconds" which some did, although we chose not to. With hindsight, the fact that some of the Gurkhas were encouraging us to eat as much as we wanted, should possibly have been viewed with a little more suspicion!

After lunch we had an informative session where we learnt about the history of the Gurkha Regiments and the excellent work undertaken by the Gurkha Welfare Trust, before heading off for our third and last "physical" activity.

This turned out to be a 40 minute session of circuit training.

However, before we started the rotation of 12 different exercises we were put through a 'warm-up' session, which in itself was tiring enough, before each of the exercises was explained and demonstrated to us.

In essence, the length of the time that we spent on each activity/exercise was as long as it took a member of the group to cover about 30-40 metres doing "lunges" whilst carrying a medicine ball. The quicker they went, the less time we had on each of the (relatively) strenuous activities. 

One of the group thought that it would be "fun" to take as long as they could to do these "lunges", watching the rest of us suffer as they did so. Oh, how we laughed (not!).

We eventually completed our circuits and were told to make sure that we made the most of our break and get a drink of water...during the TWENTY SECONDS before the next "circuit" was due to start!

I thought we had finished!

By the time we actually had finished, we were completely knac... worn out!

As we warmed down, one of the group (and it could have happened to any of us) started to recall how good lunch had been...and as it had been SO good, he decided (although possibly not of his volition) to have another look at it!! 

Rather aptly, our last session of the day was with the Army Medic, whose advice on preparing for, and coping with the demands of the Trailwalker Challenge was so good, that it merits a post of it's own...more soon!!