Happy Birthday to us!

This is a celebration post, and we've got at least three things to celebrate! First up, this blog is two years old. I'm not sure what we were expecting when we started it two years ago, but I think that we got it pretty right in the opening sentence of the first post.

This blog is basically about our running and the people that we meet through running (and the muscles that we pull by running :-)

How true did that turn out to be? There's plenty of running talk, and plenty (sadly) of pulled-muscle talk, and also plenty of talk about the wonderful people that running has brought into our lives - so thank you to all of you who have enriched us over the last couple of years.

Our second celebration point is that I went to see the neurosurgeon yesterday, and I've been given a get-out-of-gaol-free card. As of today, I can start to run again! I have a 5% chance of rupturing the disk again (slightly higher if I partake in high impact activities such as running), but as he said, I could also rupture it rolling over in bed. Now, seeing that running and rolling over in bed are two of my favourite activities, I don't think that I have much chance! :-) :-)

One thing is for sure though. I'm going to have to take it easy getting back into it. At the Striders 10k at North Head this morning, I jogged the 700m down to my marshalling post at the roundabout, and it damn near killed me. The jog back an hour and a half later left me puffing - and I think I was doing about 8 minute pace! :-)

Speaking of Striders, that leads me on to our third celebration point. Tiger Angel's running continues on its upward trajectory. Between her first and second 10ks of the year, she took off 1:44. Between the second and today, she took off another 2:48, leaving her only 2:45 short of her all-time pb, set almost 2 years ago before she got sick. Some things in life are tough, but TA makes it so easy for me to be so proud of her.

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