Not much of interest rhymes with July. Which is appropriate as I've always found July a rather dull month. Nothing of note ever happens in July, and I really can't figure why big Julius Ceaser thought it was the appropriate month to name after himself. Admittedly being mid-winter down here is always going to tell against you as a month, but even so, July just never seems to cut much mustard.
However, today was pretty good. A nicely productive day, followed by a gentle, pleasant 5km plod, a half decent meal, a beer and one of the best rugby matches I've ever seen - the decider of the State of Origin series was a cracker, and 90,000 people at the ground and millions of Queenslanders went berserk as the Maroons came from 10 points down to win by two in the dying moments. Classic stuff! I'm sure if I understood the rules better I'd be much more of a rugby fan, but tonight's game went a long towards completing my conversion (rugby pun -
sorry). Maybe the pleasant after-effects of a good run, a meal and a beer contributed in some small way, but it
was a ripper of a game...
Mid winter is probably way too late to start a concerted training programme for any of the major spring races, so I'm just concentrating now on getting back some running fitness and getting some decent base mileage in place before a concerted campaign maybe next year. Well, to be honest I'm not even looking that far ahead. For now I'll just be happy to get back to a reasonably regular running routine and see how knees and things hold out.
Google Earth have now at last some high-res images of bits of Tasmania here abouts, so I've been able to measure out some accurate possible running routes. There's a beach not too far away which I've been eyeing off called Seven Mile Beach, and guess what? It's
exactly 10 kilometres long. Which is
six miles. Perhaps it's seven miles from somewhere significant? Who knows. But it's a nice beach, so I'm aiming to run it, which means a 20 kilometre run as the car park is at one end. Maybe once the weather warms up I could even have a dip first - it's so invigorating to do a bit of body surfing before a run along the beach. One feels as if one could run all day. But the weather/water will have to warm up a bit first.
I'll report back later on that one
July. Just July.
