Photo Practice!

While Dan and Rej were partaking in some mountain biking this weekend, Clo took me on a walk round the reservoir near their house for photo practice. Here are a few of the better shots I took on the walk, and back at Clo and rej's in their bird filled garden (which I love!).


I like the photo through the fence - though I could have probably framed it a bit better and got the alpaca in a bit more focus - he (or she) is still looking a bit more fuzzy than usual close up!


These couple of pics look a bit washed out due to the fact the sun was behind the hills at this point - but we got the birds to feed from our hands so I had to put these ones up! :)

Origin

Amy did really well to get tickets, they sold out in 10 minutes and I can understand why the atmosphere was amazing. My voice hasn't really come back from all the singing and cheering we did! Queensland could really do with more variety of song though. "Queenslander, queenslander, queenslander" repeat till voice lost!

Would have been a bit better of the series was still open, but it was a really good game anyway, well at least while it looked like we were coming back. After that hope went the players resorted to entertaining us with boxing, bonus :-)

Quick mobile panorama.




On an unrelated note, best (bought) cup cakes ever. Thanks to a recruiter Amy's office was using, that didn't stop me helping eat them or us taking them round to Kate and Morgans :-)


Yes, I ate the one with the flake on the top first. Which begs the question, which cup cake would you have gone for?

More Marathon!

Sorry. Yes, I know, feels like I'm milking it a bit! I bought these pictures online and some of them came out well.

I promise that's it now.

Gold Coast Marathon

6 months of preparation and it all seemed to go wrong in the last couple of weeks. For the last 3 weeks, my right foot has been far too sore to do much running, and this week I got a bit of a cold. Still, I wanted to run, I'd put in a lot of work.

We had an early start at 4.30am to drive down to the Gold Coast.


The plan was to pick up the shuttle service at 6.30am from Runaway Bay sports center. After 40 mins there was still no sign of the bus, we started to worry, the queue of people became restless. Thankfully Amy saved the day by persuading another bus driver to take us down, there was no way I was missing my marathon!


The run itself went really well. I had signed up to be in the 3.45 pace group, but quickly found myself with the 3.30 group and I stuck with them. The drink stations were a bit hairy, I almost tripped over people as they crossed. Water and endura sports drink were available. I must have spashed 4 cups of that endura all over me, I really should have practiced drinking from a cup while running! I went well till 30k, then it got tough, by 35k I was starting to lose the 3.30 group.





Really, really pleased with my time. I completly surpassed my expectations. As the soreness subsides, I'm able to enjoy it a little more!

Big thanks to Amy for putting up with me waking her up to go running for the last 6 months and for getting me there, looking after all my stuff, taking photos and nursing me better all day!

Thanks to everyone who wished me well or went running with me.

Thanks to Amity and her dad Dave for letting me have a shower in the Marriott as well, at least that way Amy didn't have to smell me all the way home!


Time

#	Bib #	Name	Time (Gun)	Time (Net)	Place	Gender	G/Place	Category	C/Place
771	M1283	DAN TREBLE	03:32:22	03:31:16	771	MALE	664	M25-29	81

Splits

#

No.

Name

Cat

5km

10km

15km

20km

Half

25km

30km

35km

40km

Time

1

M1283

DAN TREBLE

M25-29

00:26:15

00:50:36

01:14:01

01:39:24

01:44:41

02:03:46

02:28:19

02:53:24

03:20:08

03:32:22

(00:24:21)

(00:23:24)

(00:25:23)

(00:24:21)

(00:24:32)

(00:25:05)

(00:26:43)

(00:12:14)

Stats

Menagerie on the balcony....

Couple of pics taken by Dan yesterday on the balcony - the regular honey eaters had some new faces to contend with!

Trying to get back into being a bit creative...

I've been thinking lately that I should do some more practical stuff in my spare time, and my recent trip in England inspired me to do that.

After seeing Helen's fab earring holder and accessories organisation at her house in Leeds, I set about the task of organising my own jewellery, which is currently all over the place and rarely comes out (cause it takes me half an hour to find a pair of earrings which match!).

Before

$15 and an hour later.....

I need another board to fit more things on, but its a start!

Last day in England (and it was a beauty!)

I knew this would happen...the nice weather finally arrives at home and then I have to leave! It was probably a good job with hindsight, as I had forgotten to pack any suncreen, and I wasn't sure how much more my skin would take!

Here's some pictures of Laura, Gary and I in Weelsby Woods, near my Nanna's.




My sister and I had our photos taken on the Lions that guard the entrance to Weelsby Woods about 15 years ago (it seems all the grand kids have a Lion photo!), hopefully I can update the post with the earlier one if my sister can find it at my nanna's house!