I'm Back!!!!

It's been something like three years since I posted, which is terribly scary.  So whats happened, my running has fallen to the side which is really very disappointing and I want to kick myself in the butt.....  grrr me!!!

2007 was a massive year running wise, The Rotorua Marathon in May then three half marathons later that year (Whangarei, Auckland and Kerikeri again); what a year!!!!  I just loved it.  Then we moved to Nelson December that year and the climate change on top of a new job threw my training into disarray.  Whangarei is humid all of the time whereas Nelson is just plain hot and dry, my god, so dry.  And hills, we had a house on the top of the biggest hill in town so whatever way I went there was a hell of a hill to come up at the end.

So my running became very sporadic.  I had hoped to go back up to Rotorua in May 2008 and do the marathon again but training just didn't work for me.  I considered Christchurch but with work and a new town.... running was pushed to the back seat.

Meanwhile, eating lots and not enough exercise... oh my god, all that weight that came off went back on, but not as bad as before.

So, 2008 was absolutely hopeless for running and sticking to plans, 2009 was a little better.  At least I set a reasonable goal and stuck to it, but again, a new job but this time not a new town, well not just yet anyway.  I joined the gym and was getting back into some reasonably routine running and decided on a local half marathon to do; through vineyards, what a better way to get back into it ...

But alas, 30 October 2009, i was up at Lake Rotoroa watching my daughter row and ran a bush track, just brilliant, I do love the off road stuff, sights to look at and no traffic to fight with.  Coming down the track and onto the seal again, and OMG, my calf... yikes I couldn't friggin move.  Thank god for the freezing cold lake, anyway, long story short, first major injury that took several months of physio to recover from.  There goes my plans for a half, the real grouch of the whole thing was I had just reached the hour run every other day ......

Surely that must bring me to the current, not in Nelson anymore, moved to Westport but with the same firm, thank god for that.  So many wonderful off road tracks and the reputed Buller Marathon and Half Marathon.  This years race was miserable and thank goodness I didn't run it.   

Anyway, that's a catch up on what has not been happening with my running.  I hope someone finds something interesting in all of this, who knows.