Been on Evening Shift for the past week. Have today off and start night shift! Night shift goes for a week, so will really enjoy the weekend off next weekend.
We put a deposit on our block of land during the week! Also engaged a Lawyer! Exciting and nervous stuff! Now for the plans to be drawn up and the Bank to give its final Yes!
Training has been going well. Did 10km yesterday and another 12km today. I have joined a team at work that is taking part in the Global Corporate Challenge. Everyone has a pedometer and you record the steps that you take as your team journeys around the world. The first day was yesterday and I did 21,000 steps. I recorded my steps this morning, but it appears now that the website is down!
Thats about it for now.
Keep moving forward!
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May 24, 2009 at 10:15 am
Good luck Phil with the Global Corporate Challenge and hope you are very pleased with your land purchase.
After 6 years out of international competition, I have logged 1700 kms of serious training since 1 Dec 2008.
Since 1 March have done Feilding half-marathon, Bush half-marathon, Waiterere Forest marathon, Coburg 24 hr, 282 kms down Great Coastal highway in 5 days from Warnabool to Geelong with backpack, Feilding to Palmerston North 22 kms.
After 12 years I have finally figured out to how racewalk with the longer stride and better hip action, so I will be working on this slowly to “lock it in”. Speed can come later on.
I wore the wrong shoes at Coburg, so had to settle for 3 marathons in 19 hours, but the real plus is that the first-aid officer taught me how to strap my feet properly, and I tried this on the Warnabool walk and it worked fantastically.
I also now realise that I drink too much water in races and don’t take enough salt, so that might be the end of my feet swelling problems for good. Wish I had realised this stuff years ago.
The walk through Cliffy’s territory in the Lavers forest was awesome. I cut out 165 kms in 49 hours non-stop up the 10% grades and my legs “enjoyed it very much”. I did wonder whether I should have put more weight in my pack to make it more of a challenge but I was probably having enough fun without having to do that.
Was fun with my torch with the huge canopy of beech trees cutting out all the light. From Apollo Bay onwards, I was looking forward to seeing the “roos on the Golf course” and 6 baby roos came within 3 metres to check me out. Was great to talk to many dairy farmers at their gate.
Between Coburg and Warnabool walks I managed to donate my 7th pint of blood to the Australian Red Cross, because of the Bush Fire disaster. My iron was 15.3 and I must have had plenty to give away, because I haven’t noticed a drop off in my walking speed or endurance since. Usually I notice it takes an extra 5 mins for a half-marathon, but no difference this time with less blood.
Never saw any snakes, but I read a book to know what to do if I got bitten. No spiders either. The month of May appears to be too cool for them to come out of their holes.
May 29, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Gerald,
Nice to hear from you and thanks for visiting my blog! Coburg next year perhaps?
Phil