This week......run for the hills!

Hills are currently the enemy. I view them with disdain as I attempt to climb them. I'm in a quandary as to how I can easily run up my driveway yet on race day I look at a hill and my legs become jelly. I heave myself, huffing and puffing up these giant mounds as other runners voice encouragement 'Keep going!' as they pass. One lady who suffers from the same predicament as I called out to the backs of some fit young guys 'Show offs!'. We smiled at each other and put our heads down to continue our struggle. It didn't really help us.

If not for the hills I'd be setting a good pace.Next weeks race is my favourite course as it has long gentle hills that you climb steadily and then roll all the way down. This to me is much better than suddenly having to take on a mountain!

Also this week we had to slosh through mud. Not once but numerous times. What surprises me on these runs is how I actually dive in and through these muddy bogs. I'm known to be a bit of a girl about these things but when I'm running it is a case of just get on with it, it is only mud! I feel like it is a real achievement to cross the finish line a bit grubby :)

In true Bless-ed family style and, yes, like life isn't busy enough we've accrued over the last month seven poddy calves! This entails extra work for us as they need to be bucket fed twice a day at 8am and 4pm. With winter upon us it is a getting to be a chilly undertaking! They're so cute though as you can see by the photo.

Quote of the Week- Inspiration from the Sound of Music (Climb Every Mountain)

Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
'Till you find your dream.

A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.


On to my concerns...let's see-

1. This is going to be a long cold winter.
2.Life is way too busy and really wonder how anyone ever gets everything done.
3. That my favourite daydream is to be running across the finish line of the City to Surf with Jenson. I really wonder how I'm going to keep up with him.
4. Entries open this weekend for the City to Surf and I have set an alert on my phone to remind me.
Am I obsessed?

This Week.......ok it's been a month or more!

Yep, well arrgh, righty, ahhh, yes, it's been a while. Life can be amazingly hectic at times.But I'm full of good news, good thoughts and motivation!

Running, I've been running! Some weeks 2 or 3 times and some weeks not all. After a week of no running I turned up at the Cross Country meet and pushed myself. Basically I pushed myself on the premise that I had fresh legs which were like jelly at the end and pulled up sore the next day to run a time not far off my best time for that distance for last year!

So with motivation I downloaded an app on my iPhone (I could write a whole post about how much I love my phone, in fact Apple should pay me for my enthusiasm about it's phone). Anyway I have this free, Aussie app and it is set for 14 weeks to the day of the Sydney City to Surf and I've begun the program it has planned for me.

I'm finding it great to have a course set out for me as I usually I plod along doing my own thing. Plus at this stage it all is a bit easy! Though my stomach turns when I sneak a peek and see weeks where I'll be running 30+ kilometres and I have to stop myself from panicking how I'll achieve it time and energy wise.I simply need to worry about it then!

All this planned running is giving me head time to think about my book. I have some fresh ideas about it though I'm awaiting for clarity if what I'm thinking is the right direction.

My quote for this week-

'Listen to your wise self. Let your inner compass direct the course of your life!'- Cheryl Richardson

What am I concerned About-

1. I love my daughter but some times I think we named her incorrectly as Harmony she is not! Currently she is loud, vibrant, pushy, emotional, beautiful, excited and occasionally borders on obnoxious.I heard that girls are different to boys but I hadn't planned on this!

2. That suddenly it is cold! Golden summer days are gone so I've posted a photo to it's memory :(

3.Not so much concerned but excited that I'm going to the Miracle Babies Ball at the end of the month!

Ok enough from me. Time to go running!

Cathryn