31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 10) Holey Tights

The steel $3.50 tights… they didn’t last the day!

Somehow, Jen’s encouragement led me to register for The Canberra Times Family Fun Run and Walk… for the 10k! No idea how far I’ll get, but it all ties in with Thirty before 30 #3 Run 8km and #11 Run 10km (yeah, separate. No idea!)

I have a fundraising page too if you want to make a contribution to the Heart Foundation to encourage me! xx

Mothers Day Classic 2010

What a way to spend a mothers day morning – in the Crisp Canberra air, running around the lake in the sunshine.

Today was my third Mother’s Day Classic… and it went well :) My time was 31:10 according to my watch, 31:20 according to my official time that was just smsed through to me.

Last year’s wasn’t that great, mostly because I was sick.. The one two years ago was the first time I ran 5km, I think? I did it then in 31:55… haven’t improved much in that time, sooo many stop starts.

Ran into Jen there – her first (of many more to come, I’m sure) go at the race. She got a good time too!

I’ll have to admit the showbag at the end wasn’t as good as the last couple of years, problem with no longer having Tupperware as a sponsor (no more breast-looking bottles!). Got a small thing of hairspray, some panty liners, a pen, a discount voucher for vitamins and a Belconnen Markets drink bottle. And a banana, which I scoffed down.

Okies, back to work. Apparently I have a weights session with Rish at 3!

Hope you had a good mothers day! Apparently, Australia is one of the best places to be a mother. Second best, in fact. Enjoy.

Start and Finish

Started the day with a walk around Holder and Duffy… I think I saw the first Kookaburra since I’ve been in Canberra!

Finished the day with a run around the bridges with Rish. 5k, and back under 30mins (29:49)! Even with the wind. eeps.

All But Summer

Went for some sprints this morning on the oval near work. Does it not surprise you by looking at the picture above at how dead the grass is, that the ground was hard as rock, and we moved to the soft soft bitumen of the road instead?

Summer’s Creeping Up

I do believe my arms are slightly pinker than usual, and my spots (freckly spots!) are coming out, so summer must be here!

Look at the freckles! (ignore the look on my face, and the shiny head. But the freckles! No idea how freckly I’ll be by the time summer is actually here!)

Summer means wearing summer frocks, drinking lots of water so I don’t fall down, and sunshine :)

It also means getting back into gear and running again, yes I’ve been slack this winter… did my first loop of the lake (5km) in a *ahem* slow 35:03… this included a few walking spots, including one because I think I lost my right foot on the Commonwealth Ave bridge. It just went numb, and wasn’t there anymore. Found it and ran to the end… *dies*

I want to get that time back under 32 minutes by the end of the month – really that just means finishing without stopping. I’ve been promised a dinner out if I can do under 32 twice in a rom (since I’ll be away at the very end of the month, I’ll let myself the weekend at the start of Dec to get there…)

Almost beach time! (Oh I love Beach Therapy… fixes all the woes of the world)

“Family and Community” Day

So, in Canberra, in order to give us Melbourne cup day off, they concocted some sort of family day where we’re either meant to be getting drunk at the races or sitting in the park with babies.

I nearly got all community on you – I bought a Lion’s Club sasage sizzle in Glebe park… then promptly exited before I got caught up in all the “family” excitment going on.

I made it to the gym – sweated sooo much. Going to start running around Lake Burlery Griffin again. Warmed up with a 15 min and a 10 min jog in my cardio today. Helped get that sausage in all its fatty goodness burned off!

What did you get up to for Melbourne Cup day?

Rainy Day

After us all going on about how great the weather was over the weekend, and how great the sunshine made us feel (I even got a bit pink on Saturday sitting out in the sunshine!), the rain came last night. Oh well. At least we got a run in yesterday – about 6km from ANU to the boat hire at the lake and back, only walking the downhill parts – to save my aging joints :p

My body is so sore after yesterday’s jog though. My core from holding me upright, mostly. Good though, right? We all know that area could do with a bit of tightening up :p

Catching Up

Apparently I’m running in the mother’s day classic 5k tomorrow. I had a gym session on Thursday (light weights session which I kept getting dizzy in) but I haven’t really don’t any other “exercise” as such since about 3 weeks ago when I ran my last 5km (that was my best time to date, less than 29:30)… so don’t know how I’ll go. I’m most well, still have a niggling throat thing, which isn’t too happy when I talk all day at work. But I’m getting there.

Work’s been busy the last few days, of course. A hundred things to catch up on and get back to and re book etc etc… That’s just how it goes.

Now to do the weekend things – news, washing, pottering around…

(oh and I ended up having to have start of the week off work too, damn antibiotics messed around my insides… *sigh*)

Sore but not sorry

Body starting to not feel as sore after Sunday’s run and gym sessions with Rish.

Started with the 5k loop. 33:33, not a great time, but that included a part of it being walked ahead of a “pitstop” about 3/4 through. Nice and fast at the end though, coming down off the Commonwealth Ave bridge. Inhaled a few bugs when I went through a bug cloud.

The to the gym – first “weights” session in quite awhile. a little bit on arms, but also with lunges, dead lifts and lots of ab / core work. My body was not moving too well last night! I think the killer was the medicine ball work right at the end!

Going to try to slip in a quick cardio session tonight before heading to Hugs Breath for a birthday dinner. Hopefully my late group won’t end too late and I’ll make it there!

29:52 in the rain

After a bit of a whinge that I thought it was too dark and windy to run this morning, I did my best time ever. Again, proving that I shouldn’t be listened to when I’m whinging.

29:52 around the 5km loop on Lake Burley Griffin from “The world” (some globe landmark which I don’t actually know the significance of) to Kings Ave Bridge, past all the flags, over the Commonwealth Ave Bridge and then back to the world. Nice.

Not so nice was the rain that started on me on the Kings Ave bridge,a nd continued past the galleries… or the gusts from the buses on the last bridge. But anyway :)

I’ve done something good with my day. Now Rish owes me a dinner. :D

edit: Apparently the world is part of the Captain Cook Memorial which I thought was just the water jet… Now I’ve learned something today too!