For its notoriously hot summers, Adelaide can turn on some magical spring days. Last Sunday was a perfect morning for a race along a top course in astonishingly good condition. The Race For Life was a 10km event following the banks of the Torrens River and starting in the middle of Adelaide. The course was just fabulous: fast, flat and very beautiful. Adelaide has been in drought for the last four years, but it has finally broken and this spring is astonishing: green and lush and vibrant with spring colour and growth. I was aching to get among them and run what was to be a startlingly good race in dream-like conditions.
But there's good news and bad news. The bad news is I
didn't run the 10km course.
The
good news is that instead I helped Mrs. MLCM enter and complete her first ever competitive athletics event in the 10km
walk, which was just as brilliant albeit a touch slower!
Yes, MLCM's better half has been hitting the gym lately and putting me to shame, but I thought it might be a nice change to get her out of the gym and onto the streets - or even better, the banks of a river. And it was fab - she put in a great, consistent effort and we crossed the finish line together in our first ever joint sporting effort, and five minutes under our goal time.
So it wasn't a run, but I'm putting it down as another event completed and adding it to my growing collection of bib numbers! I'm not sure we'll see Mrs MLCM gracing these pages with stories of running any time soon, but I think she was impressed enough with the fun of competitive atheltics events to maybe throw in the odd race walking gig every now and then. Hope so anyway.
Meantime, her enthusiasm and progress has further motivated me, so I'm looking at the near future to see what's on offer. Another half marathon would be nice. The Point to Pinnacle though? Not sure. We'll have to see. Stay tuned,
Crisis viewers!
This Sporting Wife.
