I am a very, very bad blogger. In my defence, it is difficult to maintain a running blog when you cannot run. To be honest though, that probably has less to do with it than general apathy. Between my last blog and now, there have been airports and flights and taxis and far too many timezones for a 7 day trip. There has been the looming decision that I just can't quite commit to in my mind. There has been job applications and selection criteria. There has been a trip to plan. What there hasn't been is running, or more importantly a desire to update the world (or the handful of people who read this blog) on my lack of running. I still feel no strong desire to blog, but I better write something before I get eaten by bears in the Canadian rockies.
So I got the go ahead to start 'running' (read as 'walk a few kms with a few 100m shuffles thrown in'). So I did this for about a week, then I started running about 5kms three times a week. It started out as walking half and running half. Now I am running most of it. My foot generally doesn't hurt afterwards, at least not much. I have also started hiking agin. On the first weekend in June I hiked two days back to back in Binna Burra. Day 1 we did Ships Stern and day 2 was Coomera Circuit (I highly recommend). The following weekend we did the Gold Coast Hinterland Great! Walk. It is a 54km hike from Green Mountains to Springbrook. It is not exactly back country, but it was good training. I did make Chris carry the tent though.
This past weekend was my attempt at Oxfam Trailwalker. That ended at 62km when the pain in my foot got to be too much and I was very worried about doing damage. I was pretty disappointed butnot as disappointed as I would be if I had to wear that stupid moon boot for another 8 weeks. My foot seems ok now.
Prior to Trailwalker, I had this rather silly idea that I might attempt the 100 miles at Glass House in September. Trailwalker has led to me rethinking that. My foot is probably not up to the training. Other than that, I really have no plans. I am going to Canada in under two weeks. I think I'll just enjoy hiking and trail running and not worry too much about what races I am going to do. Maybe I won't finish a single race this year! Fun times.
