A windy run, a milestone & a fan

My wife and I have the Adra Half Marathon coming up this Sunday so we wanted to get a nice easy 12km in yesterday morning.  Our babysitter (Grandma) needed to be out by 8am so we left at 6 so that we would have a good buffer.

Unfortunately it was very windy and so running was quite tough at times.  I kept thinking that it was funny that I could run a marathon but still struggle on a 12ker!

There were very few other runners out on Tamaki Drive (unlike just before the Marathon!) but we did meet one older gentleman who ran with us for a few km.  He managed to impress me greatly when he casually mentioned that he’d recently run his 106th marathon!

The highlight of my run had to be hitting 1000 miles for the year.  I think 1000 miles is a decent total myself. :)

Today I nipped down to Borders to buy a book during lunchtime today and a friendly lady jumped out and said “You won’t know me at all but I read your blog!”  Funnily enough, I think I do know her.  My long suffering wife immediately commented on how the highlight of the day was no longer lunch with the wife but rather recognition from a fan.  I say long suffering wife as she is used to lots of people coming up to me and saying hello.  I’m not famous or anything but I do teach at stage 01 at University and as such I’ve had thousands of students over the years.

In other news I did the end of week 02 100 push-ups test and I managed to nut out 41 in a row which is a good improvement.

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