All through school, college and Uni, my assignments and revision were usually completed in the small hours of the morning. I remember trying to print an assignment on what seemed to be the world's noisiest dot matrix printer, putting a pillow over it so as not to wake the whole house.
So it is that I've signed up for Adelaide's City to Bay Run. It runs from Adelaide's city centre to the coastal suburb of Glenelg. And it's 12km long. Inexplicably, it's described as a 'fun run', not 2 words I'd usually put together.
Still, my belly isn't getting any smaller and, like with the Manchester 10km run, I'd just like to know I can do it. I'd also like to improve on my pace. First time I did the Manchester 10k it was in around 53 minutes. The second time I trailed behind in 55minutes. My time wasn't helped by having to stop for a pee in the bushes 2km in. I don't think I'll have that luxury in Adelaide, as the course follows the tram route. Also, I've anged to talk the rest of my shift group into doing it. I'll let you know how I get on with my training leading up to 21st September. Don't expect to see me coming 37th like our Richard.
It's really hard to get our heads around the fact that it's the summer holidays in UK now, not least because it continues to be wintery here. We even bought some electric blankets today. I put on my Minidisc (old school, I know) of Christmas songs as the weather had me feeling all Christmassy. We talked to Angela and Alessio, our Italian friends, on Skype last night. They were so hot, we could see sweat dripping on their foreheads.
Sharon put a scarf on.
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