Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Five More Sleeps!

This morning was FREEZING - 1deg overnight but it had reached nearly 8deg when we ran from Black Mountain Peninsula at 9.15am. I wore my spray jacket as a wind break as the wind chill factor was bitter but I warmed up eventually although it took a while for my hands to thaw out! I still wore singlet and shorts under the spray jacket and ran with it unzipped but didn't take it right off. 
This morning's run was to Haig Park and back. I ran with Marilyn and Alan and there was plenty of conversation on the way. However my schedule was to run only 40mins so at 42mins when I knew my whereabouts I walked while the others ran. However I couldn't resist running just another 500m on the way to round up the kms and relieve the frustration a little!
Total distance run: 7km
Distance walking: 2km (plus another 4km with Teddy later)
No birthdays today but still plenty of lovely morning tea. I confined myself to two tiny sandwiches and some grapes! There were a number of people running the half on Sunday but just Carol and me running the marathon. Yes, just five more sleeps!
Meanwhile Mr B has made a trip to Bunnings and is building a DIY wardrobe with shelves and towers and I so far filled 6 garbage bags of clothes etc for St Vinnies. There's still loads more to go through yet!

8 comments:

  1. Conversation on the running way ... that means you are in goo running shape ... as you know, we, runners, can speak a lot along the running path only when we are in good running shape.
    Happy running!

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  2. So if your schedule says 5k tomorrow are you going to walk the last k of the BBQ stakes? ;-) Only 3 days 10 hours to go!

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  3. Dearest Ruthie, I hope you have a fabulous marathon run! It would be great to see you cross that line just before speedygeoff finishes the 50K. You go girl, you are such an inspiration! I still can't believe this is Canberra marathon no. 11!!!!

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  4. Only 1 day and 21 hours to go. And remember, please hang around when you finish, as I will be looking for you when I finish so that I can congratulate you.

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  5. Hi Strewth. I tried to comment using my iPhone (I was away for the weekend) with no success. I wanted to wish you well for today's race. All over now. I hope you'll blog how it all went.

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  6. Waiting on the report Strewth, what happened ? Just for those that weren't able to be there.

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  7. 4:29:51!!!!! 5^ a.g.
    Brava, well done!!!!

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