September 2009
2 posts
Not Running, Hobbling
For the past few months, I’ve been training towards running the Melbourne Marathon. Up until about a week ago, this was all going along pretty well.
Then, on my long run the Sunday before last, I felt a bit of a twinge in my lower left calf around the Achilles at about the 7km mark. My first thought was “that’s kind of annoying”, but I’d run through worse, so kept going. At about 7.5km annoyance...
The Next Fifteen Months (or, What Have I Gotten...
So.
All I was intending to do was send Derek a tweet congratulating him on finishing the Muskoka 70.3 (again!), and I somehow ended up putting my hand up to do the Canberra City Half Ironman with him and Stephen next year.
In and of itself, that’s not such a bad thing. Doing a triathlon has kind of been a goal of mine for the last couple of years (admittedly, a half Ironman is a little more...