Summer Series Revisited

After a day of rest I headed to Balmoral this afternoon for a masochistic session of how many stairs I could run in 45 minutes as part of the street orienteering course.

It was great to see so many familiar faces, in particular Seagull impressed, seeming to have lost as many kgs as I have gained. He does still have that backwashing feature intact as I listened and saw him trying to round out the circuit :)

No stats that I am prepared to submit yet, lets just call it a loosener but I was quite pleased with the less than expected DOMs effect from Sunday. Believe it or not though I seem to have manager to stuff up my problematic 2nd toenail on the right foot with just one run! At least when it falls off it wont worry me for a while!

Thanks to all for the welcome home notes, it is truly great to be back in Oz!!!!!!

A new beginning!

Well, we are back in Australia and staying at what I am calling T2 (which our triathlon familiar readers will know as transition zone 2).

To celebrate I went out for a run on Sunday morning to clear the cobwebs and jetlag. it was not until afterwards that I realised it was exactly 3 months since I last ran, which was at the Sydney Half Marathon.

Our temporary digs are at St Leonards and so I mapped out in my head an abbreviated Harbourside Hike STaR. What a great morning running on bush tracks on the edge of teh harbour as I revisited Berry Island and Balls Head.

The whole body is sore today but you have to start somewhere. The scales, along with 99% of our worldly possessions are in a 40' container somewhere between Singapore and Sydney but before I left a quick weigh in saw 86kg on the dial.

The motivation is high to use the return to Oz to also return to running and it was a pleasure to finish a run without feeling like I had actually been swimming instead!

Lots of plans but the immediate goals are to regain some endurance and reduce weight with a consistent training program. I am really hanging out to actually move to our final location, East Killara, right on the edge of the bush and am already mapping out numerous running and mounatin biking routes through Garrigal Park in the upper reaches of Middle Harbour, looks like some really good bush trails with lots of hills, hmm I wonder what that would be good for :)

One last purchase before I left Singapore I revisited an outlet and purchased a pair of Brooks Cascadia's at a "dirt cheap price"!



I wonder what these will be good for, I think there is a theme developing here :)

Countdown!

Now less than 2 weeks until the eagle lands back on Oz.

An huge amount of crap to work through......
- temp accommodation in Singapore : check
- temp accommodation in Sydney : check
- longer term accommodation in Sydney : check
- school places for kids in Sydney : check
- car in Sydney : check
- accommodation in location to suit bargearse style runner : check
- accommodation close to bush for motivational runs : check
- understand and comprehend Australian Customs rules and regulations : still to be confimed!
- potential start in B2BS : still to be confirmed
- sanity check : failure.......
- correct weight on scales : negative


I see the Seagull is close to carving up the Summer Series age group, Superflake is twice the man that I used to know, Bluedog has a wounded paw but that wont stop him, Horrie and Bluebel are running Ultras in tandem, no recent news on Professor, Miners is a MTB head, Jen is off mountain climbing etc etc etc

I am going to hit the ground running literally when we get back and at the moment, everything is a means to an end (ie get me back to Sydney!!!!)

Did I say it is 11 weeks to 6 ft when I arrive back in the land of oz?