Well yes you may think I've fallen off the face of the earth, but surprise surprise I haven't stopped running. Just too impatient to sit and blog unfortunately.
Best news though, biggest news ever, I have made it to 1000km for the year. I've never done that before, the closest I've gotten was 903 or something like that last year. I was over the moon rapt. Mike came with me, well actually he DROVE to the park and I did a lap of town first, as I had to do 8km that night to make the 1000. So he was running laps of the lake and I met him down there. What a taskmaster, he wouldn't let up on me until he knew I would have 1000km in the bag. He drove home and I ran home! ha.
Now this happened a few weeks ago, so as of now I'm up to 1053km. Blitzing it this year!
Now back to Mike, he has gotten the bug. It was only a matter of time since getting fitted for his Brooks at the Running Company. Even though he professes that he is not interested in races or events, he floored me one evening when he knew I was going to head up to Hamilton to go to parkrun the next day, we were sitting having dinner on the Friday night and he says "so what time are we leaving tomorrow". WE???? Yep, he wanted to come too. My friend Narelle was going to be Race Director that day so he said, he can be another one at the run too.
Although never one to act shy or retiring is Mike. When I went through the parkrun pics at home later on, oh dear!
Followed by his finish line antics, arms up in the air, he'd made it !!! 5km.
Followed by a dramatic grab for his race chip ...
I did say dramatic, didn't I? He had the volunteers in stitches. "I neeeeeeeed me chip" he was saying. Never a dull moment.
Love that you get nice parkrun action shots. It's a great course at Hamilton, a little double back and then a lap around the lake. I really enjoy it, although I don't head up every weekend as it's an hour's drive. I'm aiming for once a month.
So on the odd occasion we've taken to running together. It's been fun. I just do my plod and Mike does his jack rabbit sprint, followed by an out of breath "ooooh my ankles" rest while I pass him, and then another jack rabbit sprint again to catch up. I must admit we are having a ball. We don't always run together, but the times we do I'm really enjoying it. Love my new 'half marathon girl' especially the back!
Lastly for this epic catch up post, I took part in the
Indigenous Marathon Foundation virtual run for November. This was the second year an amazing lass Sarah has put this fundraiser for the foundation together, with 942 participants this year, I also took part last year. So this year I pledged to run 100km for November and I made it with change ... 107.41km.
Just a little about it from the website:
Each year, the IMF selects a group of young Indigenous men and women and trains them to run the New York Marathon. Their journeys can change not only their lives, but the lives of the people around them and their communities. The IMF was founded by marathon legend Rob de Castella in 2010. You can visit the IMF here and see all the amazing work they do.
Roll on to last weekend and the man ran his first 10km (oh well 7km, with a chat to the neighbour, with a final 3km big blockie to finish it up), ahhhh see the allure of the double figures has gotten to him. Then he changed, mowed the front lawn, and then fell into a stupor on the couch! Ahh well, he earnt that grandpa nap!
Now lastly for the epic post, I saw this on facebook or instagram can't remember, but it made me laugh. Next time hubby says you are hard to shop for ...
Keep on running, we still have 27 days to run!
