Idle?
As neither of us has written an entry for a while, you will be forgiven for thinking that we have been rather inactive. However, the truth of the matter is that we have been very busy recently. Obviously, not with work but with play! Anyway, here’s an update of what we have been up to and what we are planning to do.
Marathon Training
Currently, our main focus is the Christchurch Marathon which is on Sunday 1st June. Chantal will be running the half-marathon and I will be doing the full distance. This is something that I had wanted to tick off my ‘To Do List’ but in recent years had given up on the idea due to the sheer amount of training time needed. Running every other day, come rain or shine did not seem appealing. However, now that we are into sport in a big way, this year seemed an ideal to time to finally knock one off.
We are well into our training programme and it certainly has not been as hard or time consuming as I feared. In fact, I’m slightly concerned that it is the opposite and that I will be under prepared. Logic tells me that the programme is working well and that the reason I am finding it easy is that my body is adapting to the gradually increasing run times (and the early mornings). Basically, my programme consists of a long weekend run and three or four shorter, week day runs! We shall see how the programme has worked in a month’s time and whether I achieve my target time of 3 ½ hours.
Hockey
Of course being autumn, the hockey season has started and once again Chantal and I are both playing grass and Astroturf hockey for Selwyn. Therefore, weekends are mostly hockey filled but this season we will miss a few more games than in previous seasons. Obviously we will miss the games over the weekend of the marathon but we also be going away for a couple of weekends and doing additional activities.
Marathon Training
Currently, our main focus is the Christchurch Marathon which is on Sunday 1st June. Chantal will be running the half-marathon and I will be doing the full distance. This is something that I had wanted to tick off my ‘To Do List’ but in recent years had given up on the idea due to the sheer amount of training time needed. Running every other day, come rain or shine did not seem appealing. However, now that we are into sport in a big way, this year seemed an ideal to time to finally knock one off.
We are well into our training programme and it certainly has not been as hard or time consuming as I feared. In fact, I’m slightly concerned that it is the opposite and that I will be under prepared. Logic tells me that the programme is working well and that the reason I am finding it easy is that my body is adapting to the gradually increasing run times (and the early mornings). Basically, my programme consists of a long weekend run and three or four shorter, week day runs! We shall see how the programme has worked in a month’s time and whether I achieve my target time of 3 ½ hours.
Hockey
Of course being autumn, the hockey season has started and once again Chantal and I are both playing grass and Astroturf hockey for Selwyn. Therefore, weekends are mostly hockey filled but this season we will miss a few more games than in previous seasons. Obviously we will miss the games over the weekend of the marathon but we also be going away for a couple of weekends and doing additional activities.
New Job
Well, sort of! I returned to NGC, now AMS for my third stint at the end of January. However, I've just taken on a new position so have spent the last week in training and will go up to Auckland/Hamilton for a three day training trip - my first business trip! I don't count school campsn as no flights and hotels are involved! I can't say I am disappointed to have a good office based job!
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23.5.08
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