A Month Between Drinks!
Posted by: Audrey Post date: June 25th, 2009Boy, 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!!
One Response to “A Month Between Drinks!”
Leave a Reply
-
Subscribe via RSS
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Receive feed updates via your feed reader
June 25th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Glad that the blog is back up and running!
It does seem that the title is missing though. That is, in bloglines the web address shows, and when loaded in a browser the title bar is blank. No big deal, but thought you’d like to know.