A run in Lincoln
I’m down in Lincoln for Christmas with my family.
Lincoln is a town (population 2,727, census 2006) in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located on the Canterbury Plains to the west of Banks Peninsula, 22 kilometres south of Christchurch.
This morning I went for my long run out in the Canterbury countryside. My dad came along and we ran along a cycling/walking track which used to be a railway line.
My dad gave me a history lesson about the local area as we ran. He’d done quite a bit of research about the local history for a speech he gave to his Toastmasters group. It was quite interesting and made the miles slide along. My dad won the Toastmaster of the Year award for his local club which I’m quietly impressed by.
We ran past this fellow having a snooze at the side of the road:
It was a very nice run as we went quite slowly. We did 18.2 km in 2:05:48 for a very comfortable long slow run.
Yesterday we went to a local cafe and had afternoon coffee and cheesecake. Boy, the cheesecake was the most delicious cheesecake I’ve ever had. Cookies and Cream and a nice large slice too!
60.7 km for the week. Hopefully that burns off the cheesecake!
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Good times spending time with your dad.
Pretty rural setting to go running – watch out for the cow pats
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Cheesecake is allowed when visiting with your Dad!
Enjoy!!
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Wow, sounds nice! That beats a long, slow run in the stiff -5 degree winds of central Iowa today!
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Whoa! That’s phenomenal, Andrew!
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It must be so great running with your Dad!
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Is that Blitzen ?? How cool is to see a reindeer while running? The closest I ever got to was a cow. I did scare the living daylight out of the cow when I ran by!
That must be so cool to run along with your Dad!
Happy Holidays !
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Nice scenery on your run!
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Alright, so time to play my dumb, stupid, culture-centric American card here, but I didn’t know there were elk/deer down there in the land of the Kiwis.
Did it just stay right there by the road as you ran by?
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Great scenery. I belong to a group that is working to convert more rail lines into walking/biking trails. I don’t know if they work internationally, but I love the idea.
It’s called railstotrails.org.
Happy Holidays to you and your family………………:)
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That is one heck of a run. I am impressed. If my knees weren’t shot, I think I would run that far for a piece of good cheesecake, too.
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Glad you were able to run off the cheesecake.
Happy holidays, Andrew and clan.
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