You can't give a baby booze

Not until their 18 at least. It's 2 weeks to marathon time and last week I gave up booze. Not a drop of beer, wine, whisky, vodka, tequila, pernod or any other alcoholic liquid has passed my lips. The final week of booze was during our ski holiday in NZ and so I made sure to have a good send off! Fortunately all my limbs are in tact from a great week of playing on my new snowboard and my noggin was saved a couple of times by my new helmet.


Aside from galavanting to NZ I have been keeping up my new training regime which is a little different from last year. Previously, the core of my training plan was running and used hills, sprints, distance and frequency to improve my running style. This time I am limited to 3 runs a week; 1 sprints, 1 pace and 1 distance run. Outside of these 3 runs I can do any other cross training I like. This has meant I have been to Spin classes, played soccer, been mountain biking and used the gym a lot more. It's definately been a lot more fun and time will tell whether it has worked better. On the other hand, at the moment I have an ice pack on my knee from where I came off my mountain bike this arvo and I'm waiting for Eleri to return with the wheat bag to get some hot on there. 18 months at least ;-)