Ran my first marathon yesterday ( Read more... )

( Wherein Anagathic gives an account of the Christchurch City to Surf race of interest to few other than himself. But recorded here for posterity (and his future reference) )

So. Ran my first half marathon today ( Read more... )

Went to see the orthopods again - they're very happy with how things have healed; the house surgeon seemed mildly astonished with the fact that I have a full range of motion in the shoulder. The xray shows a breat big blob of slowly calcifying bony goodness around the break; it also shows that the bone ends are not, in fact, in contact. This is ( Read more... )

So.... the race was going pretty well - I'd had an okay swim (though pulling off my swim cap so I could clean my goggles 3 seconds before the hooter went wasn't the smartest thing I've done this week, but I got it back on by the time the water was knee deep, so that was okay), finally experienced what everyone writes about when it comes to the ( Read more... )

We had another triathlon on Sunday - my third, J's second. It was intended to be a sprint tri - 400m open water swim, 20Km ride, 4.5Km run. However the cycle leg got canceled, owing to excessively exciting & gusty side winds (apparently cyclists were being blown into oncoming traffic on the Sumner causeway...), which kinda sucked, but I don't think ( Read more... )

So, I had an attack of the clevers, y'see. Jason was on hand on sunday to take lots of photos of me being manly in lycra, as witnessed by the numerous photos I linked to earlier this week. I was bemoaning the lack of any sort of split times in the times we were given, so I had no idea as to how I'd done in the individual components of the race.
( Then I had my attack of clevers, which may well be boring as hell for the rest of you )

So. Feeling a little like I've been run over by a truck today.

I'm currently blaming not eating enough and soon enough after the race yesterday - hopefully a couple of meals of plenty of fresh vege and tasty tasty dead animals and a good night's sleep should take care of it.

( And so a bunch about the truck that hit me )

As promised (not that many of you care :), but still, for my future reference):

( Some stats re Round Taupo )

(With apologies to Mr the VIIth [edit: d'oh - that's Mr the VIIIth - a completely different Henry ( Read more... )