Three days til the Sydney Half-Marathon. Venkatesh Kanchan and I are getting a little nervous.
How to Win at Being a Husband: “Are you going to your knitting group? Dinner will be waiting. Oh, should I download Portal for you?” *swoon*
Just completed a 5.09 km run with RunKeeper
The first race of the year is under my belt! Sunday was the Mother’s Day Classic 8K, and you’ve probably already read my race report. This is my taper period for the Half-Marathon, so I’m taking things easy. I’ve done two other runs: an easy 5K through the neighbourhood, and a treadmill 5K at race pace. Feeling good. Only three days to go…
May 8: 5.67km
May 9: 8.09km
May 12: 5.62km
Total this week: 19.38km (12.1mi)
Total in 2010: 404.72km (253mi)
To meet my goal of running 1000km in 2010, I should be at 365km. Plenty of cushion.
The big decision, of course, is what’s next. Oh, there’s the Bay Run in August, of course, and the City 2 Surf a week after. But what about the spring? Could I do… the big one? I’d been thinking about Melbourne, which will be 21 weeks after the Half. But then today the website for Sydney launched, and they’ve changed the course in a good way. So I’m torn. But Sydney is only 18 weeks away, and I’m not sure I’ll be ready to start training right away. Melbourne is safer… right?
@randomknits Gorgeous and lovely!
Chicken strudel, mashed potato, broccoli and fancy pants purple carrots for my dinner. Courtesy of me.
@Lauren_lolly_ Nah, got ’em at Eveleigh Farmer’s Markets at @CarriageWorks last weekend. 🙂
@venks79 Does it count as carbo-loading? 😛 (NO BACKSLIDING, MISTER!)
Finally pulled the electric heater out of the closet. The cats are regarding it curiously.
@witty_knitter You forgot dipping it into ranch dressing. *drool* (The only food I miss from the U.S. is the really bad stuff, oddly.)
@randomknits Outback makes to pretense as to authenticity. In this case, Aussie means “rough & tumble and “giant portions.”
@randomknits @knitabulous USians also think we all drink Fosters too. Triumph of marketing over reality, really.
@thepurple8 I know. But we also don’t live like Croc Dundee either, which is image Outback sells. Rough men eat a lot, they think.
@bhmulder Well, that’s the irony. Outback is American, so it lets them pretend other countries do giant portions too.
Check out the 5.62 km run I did with RunKeeper
My Daily Sydney – a lovely blog post from my friend Lyn with photos of her daily commute from Redfern to UTS. It’s a part of Sydney that I see every day and that never gets put on postcards.
@bhmulder Thanks. Caffeine and paracetamol work wonders. 🙂
Just frogged like 6″ of lace. That error was really bugging me though. At least I’ll be able to sleep at night now.
I’ve been trying to upload a PDF to my Google Docs account but I keep getting a “Server Rejected” error. It appears to be a common problem right now. I found a way around it though. If you email the PDF to your Gmail account as an attachment, you’ll have a link to “View” it that will open it in Google Doc Viewer. Then when you go back to your Docs folder, it’ll be in there.
