Canberra is dead, long live the...

Time for one last long loving look back at Canberra before we consign it to the memory drawer :-)

I went to erase the white board, but I decided that there was too much history on it so I took this photo. It's too small to see properly here, but if you click on the photo, you can see it in more detail.

The figures across the top are fairly self explanatory. The crossed out figures are the planned runs that got cancelled (all barring the first due to injury). The blue figures are the actual km for each week. Down the right hand side is my race number, my hydration plan and my race plan.

Over on the left is a picture that Angel drew for me for my birthday, depicting me (the gnome) with tiger angel dancing on my hand and our kids in various forms around us. The formless figures in the background are all the people we know through running!

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In the weeks before Canberra when I was starting to wonder what the hell I was doing, Jen_runs posted part of a quote from Roosevelt. I dug out the whole quote and posted it beside my computer as a reminder that it is the act that matters, not the outcome. It was:

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

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So, what does the future hold now? Nothing big for the moment, that's for sure! I'm only just starting to run again, and looking forward to the CR5k on Saturday week, the Striders 10k the week after, and I found out today that my entry to the Herald half has been accepted. I promise that I won't totally obsess about them, really I do! They're just for fun, OK?? :-) :-)

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Tiger angel continues on the mend. Both speed and endurance are starting to return, although slower than she'd like. She definitely won't be running in the Herald Half, so she'll be manning the Cheer Squad, but I have a feeling that the Strider's 10k just might be on the horizon ::gnome cheers, jumps about and gets very excited::

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