Thanks for the toast Cirque ;-)
Not long after my post on Saturday, Cirque & I left Brisvegas & headed for the Gold Coast. Just as we arrived at Main Beach, we spotted Nando, Rags & Ellie out for a stroll. After lunch with them and some time spent by the pool reading the paper (ah, love Qld in winter!), it was off to the surf club for dinner. Sunday morning was a typical morning for a CR cheerleader - early start, walk to the start & then 5+ hours of cheering at the GCM. It's funny - people kept asking me why I wasn't running. For once I could say that I wasn't injured ;-) But having done all of my long runs on trails over the last 4 weeks has really reaffirmed that road races hold absolutely no appeal for me - if I have choice (as I did this weekend) between a trail run & a (road) race, well there really is no contest.
After the race it was back to the unit for a shower before heading back to the surf club for some more food (an overwhelming theme of the weekend) and catching up with some of my favourite CRs. I had a wonderful weekend though it was somewhat overshadowed by news that a friend had a rather nasty stack off his bike on Sunday - thankfully he is ok :-)
Today I was very tempted to stay in bed but managed to drag myself out just after 5am for an easy 30mins. A few lil tight spots but nothing that an hour with the Tiger didn't solve. Finished with 4.59km in 30:12mins (av 6:34m/k).
MTD: 4.59K
6 comments:
i'll never know why 14,821 people turned out to run/walk on sunday.
maybe it had something to do with the CR cheersquad being there :)
anyway the more people that like running on roads the better for people like us - keeps the trails clear!
hope your friend recovers.
Glad to hear that you had a good cheering weekend, and it sounds as if the Cheersquad did it's usual good job.
What would we do without the cheer squad? Good to see the cheer squad still moves around the country.
I know what you mean. I was having a crappy run and couldnt find anything exciting about running around houses. Ooh, look theres a petrol station for a change!
Stick to the trails I say :)
Thanks for the cheering Jen - great job Cheersquad!
I'm with you about trails - just wish there was a fast half marathon course on dirt.
See you at Bush Capital :)
Cheers ;)
Here's to another year!
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