13 Sep 04 - 19 Sep 04

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

You're supposed to run UP that hill by the way, unless you want your quads to implode.

Today is a rest day, and a well earned one in my humble. Not that I've done much by the standards of you super-runners in this forum (you know who you are), but hey, I'm just a newbie.

The weather today is absolutely splendiforous. Imagine the perfect spring day, and today is it. Just stunning. I couldn't resist taking a drive along the route of Sunday's run and geez it looks good. Super-flat for starters, and the city chiefs at the end of the run are tizzying the place up a treat. The finishing area is already set up, and all along the Anzac Highway (along which the race is run) workers are trimming the grass, putting up bunting and signs and tidying the place up to look absolutely spiffing. Consequently there's a real air of excitement you could say - if you were in the habit of using cliches, in which I guess I am guilty, despite trying to avoid them like the plague...

Well that's another nicely flowing monologue destroyed.

Ah, but I hope you get the picture. So I'm pretty darn excited I have to say, and really looking forward to the race, which is a complete turn around to a week ago when things looked decidedly more gloomy. But then, that's what spring weather can do to you I guess.

Still Happy Antipodean