Conquering..........take two

This week was the start of the next episode of running..... and with it the resurgence of the need to blog about it. The reasoning behind the insanity:

I've just come back from a three week stint in the 'homeland' and undertook the Two Oceans Half Marathon for the third time. My first ever half marathon was the Two Oceans in 2006, and I ran it again in 2007 - the year we came to Australia. This time was very different, with a changed route, about 4000 more people, an extended cut-off time, and gale force winds followed by an icy downpour. Also, this time I started the race with my husband Kevin, and my cousin, Kevin (kept them the same so I didn't get too confused) and finished with cousin Kevin.

The victorious sloshers, Kevin Cahi and me ... as seen on TV

The race went as well as can be expected, slogging along in the wet with another 16 199 people. And we finished within the required time frame, with not too many aches and pains. Sloshing through ankle deep mud for the last 100m was not exactly fun, and I felt for the finishers of the full marathon who were sloshing through knee deep mud by the time their turn came. But it was after the approximately 4km run at the end of the race, to our car, in the rain that caused the light-bulb moment: "I've just run 21.1km and feel pretty good, and now I'm running another 4km and it feels pretty good, and I recon I've got at least another pretty good 6km in these legs, so why not try a full marathon" said she who has spent her entire life thinking and saying that people who run full marathons are clearly off their heads.

Gift vouchers for psychological evaluations would be greatly appreciated for my next birthday, thank you very much! I am now training to run the Sydney Marathon on 12 September 2012............... so watch this space!
And team tutu is always after willing participants, so please do come along....