the challenge: week 12 - an update

Can you believe it's been 12 weeks already since I started my training for Total Warrior? And started blogging again? Doesn't time fly when you're having fun...
So 3 months seemed like the perfect time for a little update on the ol' training, I did one at week 8, so I guess it's becoming like a regular feature.
Well here's a revelation, I'm still going strong after all this time, it must be a miracle...or the fact I've got �650's worth of sponsorship already so giving up isn't really an option now.  But in all seriousness, I am, dare I say it, getting into this whole 'healthy lifestyle' malarkey, I'm eating well (80% of the time), I'm working out regularly (6 days out of 7 when I can) and I'm really seeing improvements.

But the biggest news? I'm still running, and last weekend I managed 8k. yes that's right, 5 miles, I ran for 5 whole miles.  I maintained a pretty regular pace, and it wasn't the most horrendous thing I've ever done.  No, that was Sunday, when I decided to to do some hill training...now that was painful.
So to tell you a little more about Total Warrior, it's basically a 10k run, with 25 obstacles thrown in there for kicks.  It involves everything from climbing up walls, swinging across monkey bars, jumping through fire (yes really) and plunging yourself into ice cold water.. I know, I'm insane!  While I've been told you don't actually run the 10k in one go as you wait around at points to get on the obstacles, it was still one of my aims to run a full 10k by August, and at the moment, I'm well on track to do that.
My second aim is to complete the monkey bars by moving across them using just my arms (i.e. not hanging upside down and using my legs too).  This is proving harder to train for because it isn't the type of obstacle you regularly come across, but me and the mr recently hopped a fence at my old primary school and had a quick go.  As a first effort, I don't think this is half bad...

But if anyone can recommend some tips to build up my upper body strength without having a pull up bar to hand, can you let me know?
And finally, I just really want to enjoy it.  I don't want the whole course to be so unbearably difficult that I'm just waiting to get to the end, hence the hill training.  I hate running, and I hate running up hills even more.  So I spent 25 minutes on Sunday running up a load of steps in my local park, jogging back down, and sprinting (I say sprinting, in my head I was sprinting, the reality probably wasn't so!) back up.  It hurt.  And it very definitely wasn't fun, but it's all in the name of charity.  
So that's it for week 12, do we reckon I can have hit 10k by the time we get to week 16?