A Running Update

I lost a bit of momentum posting to this blog over the last few weeks largely because my plans to enter and run the Melbourne Marathon fell through thanks to an injury to my training partner. We had planned to travel down to Melbourne and enter run the marathon together and the thought of doing it alone doesn’t really appeal to me. So I’ve canned my plans for a 2nd marathon in a year and look to next year.

That hasn’t meant that I stopped running. The body’s fit and I’m doing times that I haven’t been capable of since 2000. The Sutherland to Surf and the City to Surf have come and gone and my times were as good as when I was in my early to mid-30s.

To this end, there’s a lot to be said for healthy living and constant exercise since my school days to maintain a high quality of life. Even after the occasional niggling injury and a back injury that stopped me from running for 3 months at the end of 2006 I have been able to get back to full fitness very quickly.

The fact that I can get out and be active with my 3 children and keep up with their active lifestyles can be put down to all of the running and exercise that I have put in over the years. That, and some early years of pushing them in a succession of double jogging strollers for which they now owe me big time.

So the training continues as we come into the Spring months here in Australia. This is the time of the year where the weather can be a bit hit or miss with the strong southerly winds playing havoc on the runs. I’m not going to be running in any of the Sydney Marathon Festival runs due to a prior commitment on September 21, so I will simply be running for the enjoyment of getting out in the sunshine and plodding along the foreshores of Sydney Harbour.