Week one of my 24 week training schedule is complete with 39km run.....three lions and no blisters!
Last week I set off on a 7 km run from my house near the park. I was going to run 3.5km and then turn and so stuck my headphones into my ears and began.
About a kilometre after the turn I saw two game-drive vehicles ahead looking at something but thinking it was probably a kudu or something I just continued. One vehicle broke away from the others and headed towards me with an American client on the back giving me that good old Yankee hand signal.....TIME OUT!! I pulled the earphones out and heard him say "Time out son....there are lions ahead!"
Just then a friend pulled up in a pickup truck and offered me a lift past the lions....I happily obliged!
He dropped me back on the road just 200m past the sleeping cats and I carried on with the rest of my run.
A little reminder of why I am running this marathon!
Last week I set off on a 7 km run from my house near the park. I was going to run 3.5km and then turn and so stuck my headphones into my ears and began.
About a kilometre after the turn I saw two game-drive vehicles ahead looking at something but thinking it was probably a kudu or something I just continued. One vehicle broke away from the others and headed towards me with an American client on the back giving me that good old Yankee hand signal.....TIME OUT!! I pulled the earphones out and heard him say "Time out son....there are lions ahead!"
Just then a friend pulled up in a pickup truck and offered me a lift past the lions....I happily obliged!
He dropped me back on the road just 200m past the sleeping cats and I carried on with the rest of my run.
A little reminder of why I am running this marathon!
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| The "youngsters" whom I ran past on day 3 of training!! |
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