It looks like I'm committed to it now, I've told enough people I'm going to do it deliberately so i have to! I had my best week yet of running last week, 45k in total with my longest run of 14k. However checking this against even the easiest of marathon training schedules says I'm way off where I need to be. I should have had at least one attempt at a >30k run by now and should be doing ~60k a week. So I need to pick it up a bit, quite a bit and not get injured.
Things are looking up this week though, I got some good runs in:
Mon 21k ~2h
Tue 3k
Wed 14k
Thurs Snooze
Fri 14k 1h14m
52k total. Now all I need to do is enter the thing :-)
It's all down to luck...
My cousin recently posted this link on Facebook; his dad (my uncle) wrote it up a few years back from my grandad's old journals. I read it for the first time this evening and it made me think how lucky I am to be here....thanks Private Walter Boldock and all the others who have perished in the world wars.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/50/a3220750.shtml
Amy x
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/50/a3220750.shtml
Amy x
Australian Open - Melbourne
In January we went with Megan to Melbourne to watch some of the Australian open. We went to one day session and one night session, Amy managed to score us some amazing tickets. We got to see world men's number one and two, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer play. We also saw 3 of the top 4 ranked women Dinara Safina, Elena Dementieva and Jelena Jankovic.Nadal:
Federer
Obligatory panoramic :-)
Enjoying coffee in the cool back streets of the city.
New Zealand 2008-09 Day 7
The Bay of Islands
While booking a cruise round the bay of islands the tour operator recommended the local chemists home made sea sickness pills. Now I can't resist a bit of drug experimentation, so we skipped off to buy some! We met the pharmasist himself and he enthusiastically sold us some with some lengthy instructions.
Sadly the sea sickness pills knocked me out, I could have slept with someone standing on my head. Ironically they claimed to be none drowsey. I didn't see much of the bay of islands.
But i did wake up to see some dolphins playing
While booking a cruise round the bay of islands the tour operator recommended the local chemists home made sea sickness pills. Now I can't resist a bit of drug experimentation, so we skipped off to buy some! We met the pharmasist himself and he enthusiastically sold us some with some lengthy instructions.
Sadly the sea sickness pills knocked me out, I could have slept with someone standing on my head. Ironically they claimed to be none drowsey. I didn't see much of the bay of islands.
But i did wake up to see some dolphins playingNew Zealand 2008-09 Days 5 and 6
Day 5 started with some fantastic hot spring baths, each one was just a degree or two hotter. Turns out there is a huge difference between 38 degrees and 42 though. 42 was unbearable!
After relaxing in hot springs the obvious thing to do is a jet boat ride!
And a random emu.
We drove to Auckland for new years eve and to spend a couple of nights in a fancy hotel. We ended up in a really nice and reasonable Sushi restaurant in the viaduct harbour area.
Day 6
Up the sky tower
( and watching people get dropped down the side of it on cables )
An of course, a great excuse for a 26 picture panorama.
Scary deformed Santa.
After relaxing in hot springs the obvious thing to do is a jet boat ride!
And a random emu.
We drove to Auckland for new years eve and to spend a couple of nights in a fancy hotel. We ended up in a really nice and reasonable Sushi restaurant in the viaduct harbour area.Day 6
Up the sky tower
( and watching people get dropped down the side of it on cables )
An of course, a great excuse for a 26 picture panorama.
Scary deformed Santa.
New Zealand 2008-09 Days 3 and 4
The rental car we picked up in Auckland only had 7k on the clock when we drove it out of the airport, it was brand new. Arriving at Hooker Falls, Amy jumped out of the car in the pouring rain, only to realise we had a puncture. The rear left tire hissed as we stood round and watched it deflate, we contemplated removing the glass, but decided that would only let it down quicker. I was all ready to swap it for the spare, but I didn't want to have to pay out for the damage, so we called the shop and they sent someone. I didn't buy the premium reduction insurance, I have a theory if that I go my whole life without paying it and something bad happens I'll break even. Touch wood nothing bad ever happens and I win :-)
The repair man said he'd never seen a puncture like it!
Now I have to apologise in advance, I went a little overboard on the panorama front. I worked out how to fix the exposure on my crappy little camera so I could take panoramas.
Hooker Falls were nice, if a little rainy
Then on to our first geothermal park, Craters of the Moon. It was eerie, it looked like a 2nd world war smoking battlefield.
We had lunch overlooking a geothermal power station and in the afternoon we stumbled upon this cool hydro electric dam! We were looking for a jet boat ride, but it didn't seem to be running. Twice a day, for a reason I have yet to come up with they open the dam gates and let a whole load of water down the stream they damed. Sirens go off before the gates open and gradually each pool along the stream fills up and flows into the next. It takes a while, but it was really satisfying to watch.
Before
After
Day 4 we left Taupo to drive to Rotorua and on the way we stopped at another geothermal park. Sadly the weather still wasn't so good an the colours in my pictures looked nothing like the ones in the gift shop.
It took us a good 2 hours to walk round the park, there were so many stinky steaming craters and pools!
Fortunately there was a good variety of stinking craters and pools!
The funniest thing we saw in the park was a couple of tourists clearly read the "Hot! Don't stick your hand in this boiling hot geothermal pool" only to then stick their hands in, shriek and proclaim how hot it was. Hilarious. I wish I had it on video.
Sadly I didn't get a mud bath on the trip, but we did find these mud pools. The mud made cool shapes and splat noises when it bubbled.
In the afternoon we went on the luges at Rotorua. Helmets on!
They were brilliant, screaming down the mountain in a little go cart. I was having far to much fun to take any pictures, so I'll steal one from the website:
To top off a big day we managed to squeeze in a 'cultural' evening with glow worms as well.
The repair man said he'd never seen a puncture like it!
Now I have to apologise in advance, I went a little overboard on the panorama front. I worked out how to fix the exposure on my crappy little camera so I could take panoramas.
Hooker Falls were nice, if a little rainy
Then on to our first geothermal park, Craters of the Moon. It was eerie, it looked like a 2nd world war smoking battlefield.
We had lunch overlooking a geothermal power station and in the afternoon we stumbled upon this cool hydro electric dam! We were looking for a jet boat ride, but it didn't seem to be running. Twice a day, for a reason I have yet to come up with they open the dam gates and let a whole load of water down the stream they damed. Sirens go off before the gates open and gradually each pool along the stream fills up and flows into the next. It takes a while, but it was really satisfying to watch.Before
After
Day 4 we left Taupo to drive to Rotorua and on the way we stopped at another geothermal park. Sadly the weather still wasn't so good an the colours in my pictures looked nothing like the ones in the gift shop.It took us a good 2 hours to walk round the park, there were so many stinky steaming craters and pools!
Fortunately there was a good variety of stinking craters and pools!
The funniest thing we saw in the park was a couple of tourists clearly read the "Hot! Don't stick your hand in this boiling hot geothermal pool" only to then stick their hands in, shriek and proclaim how hot it was. Hilarious. I wish I had it on video.
Sadly I didn't get a mud bath on the trip, but we did find these mud pools. The mud made cool shapes and splat noises when it bubbled.
In the afternoon we went on the luges at Rotorua. Helmets on!
They were brilliant, screaming down the mountain in a little go cart. I was having far to much fun to take any pictures, so I'll steal one from the website:
To top off a big day we managed to squeeze in a 'cultural' evening with glow worms as well.
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