After a week of hobbling I am now fully functioning and will be going for a training run tomorrow to start getting ready for the Melbourne marathon. This week has been fairly interesting as I have a 30 minute walk from the train station to the office which took 45 minutes on monday and has slowly come back down to 30 minutes during the week. Anyway, here are the long awaited, most anticipated photographs of a man in tights doing stupid amounts of running. Here blue and I are having a pre run conference:
Jen then decided to show us her best cow impression to go with the new member of the team, cow bell.
With my trusty team in place I went and joined the other runers and the cheer squad went up to the start. Blue managed to push his way right to the front using his friendly personality and big arms.
So now the race was on, it took a couple of minutes to get away after the gun and then it was all free running. I stuck with the 4 hour pace runners for about 10km and then pulled away from them a bit as I felt strong at about half way. Here I even had the strength to raise my arm.
Unfortunately all my early enthusiasm took it out of me and here you can see a slightly sadder boy. No kidding, that was about the size of my stride by then and soon after the spasm in my calf added to the fun so that I had to stretch it out every couple of kilometres.
I struggled on through though and after 4 hours 8 minutes and 38 seconds I was home and enjoying the gorgeous Sydney weather. Thanks for all your support and text messages on the day, I'm looking forward to the Melbourne marathon now as it is a flatter course and hopefully I've learnt to pace myself a bit better!
Jen then decided to show us her best cow impression to go with the new member of the team, cow bell.
With my trusty team in place I went and joined the other runers and the cheer squad went up to the start. Blue managed to push his way right to the front using his friendly personality and big arms.
So now the race was on, it took a couple of minutes to get away after the gun and then it was all free running. I stuck with the 4 hour pace runners for about 10km and then pulled away from them a bit as I felt strong at about half way. Here I even had the strength to raise my arm.
Unfortunately all my early enthusiasm took it out of me and here you can see a slightly sadder boy. No kidding, that was about the size of my stride by then and soon after the spasm in my calf added to the fun so that I had to stretch it out every couple of kilometres.
I struggled on through though and after 4 hours 8 minutes and 38 seconds I was home and enjoying the gorgeous Sydney weather. Thanks for all your support and text messages on the day, I'm looking forward to the Melbourne marathon now as it is a flatter course and hopefully I've learnt to pace myself a bit better!
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