29. Do a cross-country race with a deep creek crossingThis was the WA Marathon Club's 16km "King of the Mountain" run from Helena Valley to Fred Jacoby Park in Mundaring State Forest. Luckily I didn't learn about the creek crossings until I was on the bus to the start. As it was, when I woke to heavy rain at 6am I only convinced myself to go ( Read more... )

I've been kind of shut down with stress and unhappiness over work issues recently, but change is happening, and I think there's at least a 60% chance it's for the better. If not, well, I'd almost decided to resign anyway and there are always other things to do in life. I got to thoroughly exercise the part of me that likes conflict last week.

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Third leg down and I'll be getting a nice medal at the club awards dinner later in the year. (For completing the series, not for winning anything! This is the only chance slow people like me have to get a medal ( Read more... )

This morning was the 15km leg of my club's "Road Running Championship". I started off faster than I could maintain, but came in at 1:26:04 with 5km splits of 27:45, 29:00 and 29:30, an average of just under 5.75 minute kilometres. Not my "sekrit goal time", but good enough, and I hope it didn't take too much out of me, since the 25km is next ( Read more... )

This morning was the first and easiest leg of my club's "Road Running Championship", a 10km run at Canning River Regional Park in Wilson. I've been training very slowly (up to 7 minute kilometres) in my attempt to build up to 25km by the middle of June, and wasn't sure how I'd go trying to run a bit more briskly. I started out near someone I ( Read more... )

A rice cooker is one of the few kitchen appliances I use much and mine broke a while ago, so I went to an electrical goods store this week to replace it.

When I entered the store I saw a large poster promoting the chance to win a car if you bought a Sunbeam appliance. It had a picture of a little red car and said in large white letters: THIS CAR ( Read more... )

I've finally just about got my life back together after letting what's supposed to be a part-time job take it over for a while. Note to self: don't do that again. I'm behind on my New Things and will be catching up soon ( Read more... )

I seem to be drifting away from LJ and I'm not sure whether or not that's a good thing. The other day I spent my free computer time happily writing an accounting procedures manual for a non-profit organisation, which is odd behaviour. Life is full and varied at the moment and maybe I'm getting everything I need offline? I still read everyone's ( Read more... )

For the Life Appreciation Challenge, Day 41. Finishing this year's weed spraying. It's a race against time, me against them. In each year so far, some of them have overtaken me at the end and gone to seed, but I know their tactics now and I'm in with a chance. My goal is zero flowering Cape Tulip and Paterson's Curse anywhere on my land. Seek! ( Read more... )

My alpaca education advanced a little bit more on Saturday, when I attended a workshop on fleece preparation. Taught by someone from the national fleece marketing body, it covered characteristics to try to breed for, how to keep the fleece in good condition while it's still on the animal and avoid contamination in the shearing shed, how to work ( Read more... )