Spring is well and truly here (and almost over). Four more sleeps until the Auckland Marathon. Tired, happy, excited, nervous and… well, tired deserves another mention.
Training has not gone to plan, which means everything is how it should be (or how it usually is). Strangely I am more excited about the next marathon than this one. I can’t quite explain it, but we have learned some fantastic new things recently that have made running much more interesting and rewarding. It was too late to help me in this race, but I can’t wait to get back and get started on building my new running strength and routine into our exercise lives. The focus is on learning to run for a lifetime, and how you can do that without getting all wobbly kneed and crumbly.
I am looking forward to flying to Auckland and staying in a nice hotel. I am really hoping for a reasonably quiet room this time round – last time we were being serenaded by loud, happy, party people all through the night, which continued even as we made our way to the ferry at 5am. No matter the outcome though, we will have a lovely few days and make good use of the time away.
In news around the house, we have our first lambies – a very cute pair of twins from the ewe we call “Donkey’s Mum”. We also have loads of seeds (re)planted, after one rather disastrous stormy night took out all the early seedlings I was feeling so smug about. I keep telling myself it is still spring so the tomatoes will ripen and the corn will still have something on the cobs – am I kidding myself? Don’t answer that.
Teenager is sitting NCEA Level 2 soon and is supposed to be studying – I guess we find out exactly how much is being done once it is too late to do anything about it. Tween is discovering a few sad parts of life but is still managing to bring sunshine into everyone else’s day. I feel very frustrated at not being able to protect her from all that the world can throw around.
There is so much to do before we leave. Then suddenly it will be Christmas, then school will start again and around we go I guess. I must say that I feel a lot more excitement about life at the moment and my world has been a very happy one this year.