Busy week on all fronts. For those that have noticed I've been playing around with the blog and added some things, most notably the countdown clock and the list of races I have registered for! Maintaining two blogs just became too much and, given running has become my fav pastime I decided to dump it all in here. One race that I can't yet add to the list is the NYC Marathon in November 2010. Two ways you can get in, lottery draw or sign-up as a charity runner. I've written to the official charity and asked for an application as I like the idea of both being able to run and raise money. We shall see.........
Friday I ran 14 miles (22.5k for the kiwis), per Case's instructions. It's a long way with the last two miles feeling particularly long. I did manage to do it in 2hrs 13mins though, which made me quite happy. It does mean I am ready for my half in February. It's around Golden Gate Park in San Fran and Michelle is coming along to cheer me along - well most likely drink coffee and eat cake waiting for me to finish. This race will be huge with 1000s entered, I think we can assume that I will be back in the pack among the minions slogging it out.
Weekend of Feb 13 (well the Thursday before) Michelle and I are off to Chicago, her to give a paper at a conference - me along for the adventure. We are on the hunt for some fun things to do and trying to figure out where we might find the girls, well go dancing I mean. While Chicago will be cold it will be fab fun and I have been before. Fortunate for everyone I didn't get that job.
One fun, out of the box thing, at work this week. I ended up presenting a case study to a perspective new client outside of Cisco. I haven't pitched for work in eons so it was an excellent opportunity to dust off the skills and generally enjoy walking into the unknown. It was for a very large global company and it really dawned on me just how much I've learnt in the last few years - I could honestly talk about the challenges of global comms.....having now been doing it for nearly three years.
It's Sunday, the rain has finally stopped. I'm off to the gym to see Case.....simple life for me.
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