• For the trusty all-day leather boot effect, get hold of a belt sander and apply it to random sections of your feet.

• Cook all your meals in the same pot, without washing it between courses. To encourage the genuine on-the-trail-eating-only-rice feeling, be sure to eat nothing else for a week.

• Invite all your flatmates to sleep in your room. Wake them up at 5am and tell them "its time to hit the trail!"