the Year of the Gnome :-)
Exercise-wise, I've really struggled this week. I don't recall ever being as beaten up after a race before. I slept most of Sunday afternoon, and I didn't lose the DOMS until yesterday. We took a well-deserved rest day on Monday, and scheduled a recovery run on Tuesday morning with Angela (Angela had slipped off a fit ball at her PT and bruised her tail bone, so we were all in recovery mode). 10 minutes walk, 20 minutes very slow jog, 10 minutes walk (5.5k).
TA hit the Gym for 1/2 an hour's weights & 1/2 and hour's abs class on Wednesday, while I went off for a wandering 55 minute run (10k). I decided to go exploring, and managed to find a bunch of new hills. Not a particularly memorable run.
Last night Run Club was high on the celebrations scale, but not exactly tough from the exercise point of view :-) We did an Elf relay (6x200m relay with elf hats as the baton), Reindeer races (the tyre pull, with Santa in the tyres and antlers on the runners) and Santa pyramids ("presents" distributed around the track - 1st & 2nd runners have to run with a sack and pick up the presents (200m each), then the next two have to redistribute the presents around the track and the final 2 have to pick them all up again). Cool down, stretches and Party! For a bunch of health-conscious running nuts, we managed to have enough sugar and fat spread out on the picnic rugs to feed an army. Marvelous! :-)
I have to say that I'm really chuffed about this next bit. End-of-year awards were presented, and TA picked up a well-deserved Service award, and yours truly scooped the Runner of the Year! To say I'm pleased is an understatement. I haven't managed to wipe the smile off my face yet. I didn't set out at the beginning of the year to make any drastic changes, but it has turned out to be a good year, hasn't it? :-)
TA's gone for a swim before work this morning, and tomorrow morning I make my debut Quarry Rd run with a bunch of CRs. They're doing anything from 1 to 3 laps (or possibly more), but I think that 1 will probably suffice for me.
Lastly (but definitely not leastly), it's TA's birthday tomorrow (yes, her middle name is Eve :-), so...
Happy, Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday dear tigerangel
Happy birthday to you!
sfG
posted by TA and the Gnome @ 8:20 am
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8 Comments:
Happy Birthday TA ;-)
Congratulations on the gong SFG what an achievement!
You are going to love Quarry Rd - look forward to seeing you there ;-)
Congratulations to both of you!
Runner of the year. We will be in esteemed company tomorrow - looking forward to it.
Cheers,
Ben
Happy birthday TA! Have a wonderful and I hope Gnome spoils you ;-)
And congratulations to you both on your Run Club awards - particularly on the Runner of the Year award. Wow, what an achievement. You have had a sensational year Gnome and next year is going to be even better!
Wow, how exciting about those awards!!! Huuuuuge congrats to you both!
What a ball the Run Club session must've been, who would've thought hard work could be so much fun.
Hope you both and your family have a wonderful Christmas and that 2006 brings all sorts of good things.
Oh, and Happy Bithday for tomorrow TA :-)
What a way to finish the year! Awards for you both, anniversaries, Birthdays and Christmas..
Happy birthday TA, have a lovely day and congrats on your award
Congrats Gnome on a much deserved runner of the year award! How are you going to top that next year?
...HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR A-NGEL....HA-PPY BIRTHDAY TO YO-OU...oh, you already sung that? Well we are 11hours behind!
Well done both of you for your very deserved awards. I can't wait to read the newsletter and catch up on all the goss. Wish I could have been there.
As for the stronger gravity up here...gnomey seeing as you are an engineer it must be true!
Happy birthday TA and congratulations to the two of you on your awards.
Hope you had agreat birthday TA.
Congrats to both of you on your awards - no doubt, well deserved. Lets hope 2006 is just as good to you!!
Hope you had a great Christmas!
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