The Winning Streak is Broken!

Posted by: Audrey Post date: June 28th, 2009

So, today was the Spectrum Fun Run! The kidlets and I did the 5k, while Hubby did the 8k as part of the club’s 8k series. He did very well – something along the lines of 37 minutes..

It was the first event for my good friend Judith, which was sort of sentimental cos it was my very first run 2 years ago. She did well in the 2k event. Here we are, I think this was before the run. Thanks, Tim, for taking the photos.

As it turned out, both kidlets finished just outside the placings in their categories. Miss 9 was 4th in primary school girls, and Master 7 (yep, he had a birthday while the blog was sick) finished 4th in primary school boys.

It was a nice morning, weather was good and it  wasn’t too cold. I like this run, they raise funds for people with disabilities, and it’s always a nice, low key, friendly event.

The devastating thing was, we didn’t win a lucky draw prize. What on earth is the point of going? <G>

There is a new face at running club, a nice young man who is a very fast runner! He is the spitting image of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new character, Bruno, and I think I’ll have to see the movie now.

School holidays – rest, play dates, movies, local show, all sorts of fun things as well as planning for next term with our new distance ed teacher. All’s good.

A Month Between Drinks!

Posted by: Audrey Post date: June 25th, 2009

Boy, I think this is the longest its been between posts. The blog went pear shaped for quite a long time, and I couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong.  Eventually it seems it was a problem with file permissions on my webhosting, and when it was fixed, voila, here we are.

I think if I were to comment on all that’s happened in the last month, it would be a ten page essay, so I might give that a miss. Had a couple of nice runs. We did the Race The Rattler in Gympie with the children and dogs. It worked out quite well, but I must admit, my embarrasment was huge - the race started and off we all ran, with a police car bringing up the rear of the pack of runners. Well, only for about 50metres, then Guinness did his first (of many) deposits for the day.  He ran well, and Hubby and Sinner finished the race for our team. The kidlets and I trotted off to the finish line but the unseasonally hot weather got the best of us, and we didn’t get back to the station before the race route closed. We all (dogs included) got a ride in a bus for the 2km back to the finish line.

There weren’t any lucky draw prizes for the teams in this event, so we couldn’t clean up again, but we did win the meat tray raffle at our camp ground!

Hubby and I did the 21km at Lake Manchester on Sunday. What a gorgeous run!

It took us 3 hours to finish, and we were again stone cold motherless last. The worst of the rain held off, we just got a pleasant little drizzle about half an hour from finishing. Again, I won a lucky draw prize - a book called What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Not sure what I think of it, I’ve only read a few pages, but it’s not as thrilling as my usual fare - Kathy Reichs.

Just had a visit from the kidlet’s new distance ed teacher. Got our program for the second half of the year, and some good ideas for resources.

We had our briefing night for the Kokoda Challenge, and I’m starting to look forward to the event!! After doing the mini Kokoda’s 29 hilly km in 8 1/2 hours on the 14th of this month, I’ve started to remember how big those hills are.

What’s coming up? Spectrum fun run on Sunday morning, Hubby is doing the 8k and the kidlets and I are doing the 5k. It’ll be fun because our friends, the Millers, are coming too. After the run, we’ll have to go into South Bank to pick up my race pack for the Gold Coast Half. I was fortunate enough to score a free entry when a friend of a friend had to withdraw. Having said that, I’m not exactly race fit, but my feet don’t hurt.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program!!

No Running At All!

Posted by: Audrey Post date: May 29th, 2009

I think this is the first week I haven’t run at all.  Nothing, nada. Having said that, I did 5km on the treadmill with the incline quite high, but I think it was last week. Can’t remember. Very unmotivated.

We went to Caloundra for the foreshore fun run last Sunday. It’s one of my favourite runs of the year. Great location and very well organised.  I did the 10k in one hour exactly. Not my worst, but far from my best. There was a lady there running with her dog.  I’m going to start checking to see if we can take the furkids on some of these low key runs.  Hubby and the kidlets did the 3k, which was quite hilly, in just over 19 minutes. I’m going to have to shake a leg, or Master nearly 7 is going to whip my butt! We maintained our winning streak by taking out one of the lucky draw prizes.

We went to the Sorry Day ceremony last Tuesday morning.  It was excellent, very intense. You can read about it all in books and the newspapers, but it’s very moving to hear the stories, straight from those who lived them.  We met a Canadian lady, who explained that the same thing had happened in Canada, and also a Cherokee Indian lady who told how her people had been moved from their native land at gunpoint. People in power have been doing bad things to others for a very long time.

Miss 9 is at camp tonight with Girl Guides. The Gold Coast 5k is on on Sunday and we’re hoping to win a night at the Hyatt, LOL.  This weekend we’re rostered on to clean the Guide hut, and I have 8 articles to write by the end of next week!

We’re going to Gympie to race the rattler, the kidlets can participate this year, so we’re making a family team. Not only that, but I approached the organisers, and they’re happy to have the dogs run with us. Yay!  Looking forward to it already.