Have been absent for very good reason lately which I will elaborate on in my following posts but in this one i will just share my birthday day with u.

Ended up being a very physical day and it averaged about 37deg. We cycled up and down and round and round checking out parts of Darwin and eating tropical fruits the whole time. We had decided to do a 5km running race at 6pm (yes in this heat) so we had a little time to kill. 50kms on the bike later and I was facing this running race which I suprisingly felt quite ready for despite the complaints of my semi-tired legs.

Everyone was warming up jogging around, I did a short jog to the bush to pee and felt that warmup was sufficient. There was about 70 or so people on this balmy Darwinite evening, so good to see so many active people!
Once the race started I was cruising along quite well with another guy and we jogging together so long that we exchanged some small talk and then he took off, he looked very fit and I was quite happy that I could keep up with him at all!

I started really feeling it about 3kms in, a big factor being that I desperately needed to do a BM (so the race took on a whole new challenge!) and a few people passed me (which is great for the ego), it gave me an extra bit of motivation and I ‘sprinted’ home to the finish line passing an ‘older’ couple (probably in their 70′s!), very impressive.

I ended up with a time of 25mins flat for 5kms and Im pretty happy with that! The only thing I wasn’t happy about was having to watch people destroy all their good work with fatty bbq sausages and low carb beer! I searched for any sign of fruit…calling for it…..sending out the vibes….finally sniffed out a tiny plate of watermelon slithers and quickly grabbed a couple although I didn’t need to rush. Downed about 600mls of water and felt quite good, not enough water though which probably didn’t help with my suffering over this past 5days.

We cycled home adding another 30kms to our legs (sort of ended up being like a Duathlon-ride-run-ride) and passed by Coles and halved a lovely melon, great ending to a great birthday!

Will get the last 5days as soon as I can.