C25K - Week 1

Well, I went on my first walk/ run today and it felt so good to be out early in the morning pretending to be fit! Loved it, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. But it's only the first day!!!

I'm going to run wednesdays, fridays and sundays. Need new joggers.

Loved the podcast which keeps you going and motivated and encouraged.

:)

My Personal Challenge

Ok, this blog is about my personal challenge for this year.

I am going to try to get fit enough to run the Sydney Bridge Run which is a 9km run. This year it will be on the 21st Sept. I have found a beginners training guide for people who have no running experience. It's a 9 week program (3 days a week) called Couch to 5k, http://c25k.com/ and some guy has been kind enough to create podcasts that you can convert to mp3 and it tells you what to do for each week along with music to run to. Soooooo, that's the challenge, anyone interested in joining me and challenging themselves? The bridge run website also has a 14 week training plan for beginner runners leading upto the event, so that would start Monday 16th June.

http://www.sydneymarathon.org/DOWNLOADS/1225.pdf

So I'm challenging myself to be able to run 5kms in 30mins by the end of April.

I'm sweating just thinking about it!!!!

Our Birthday 2008

Well another year has flown by and Hannah and I have enjoyed another birthday together. Hannah turned 3 and I'm 25 (or there abouts.... ;))

Anyway, we had a little afternoon party on Australia Day (due to other commitments on our actual birthday) and it was a really nice time. Thanks to everyone who came along to share the day with us, we both had a great time.

This year Paul bought me the BEST present, something I have always wanted and would probably never have bought myself. Something old men covet when they retire, something that will keep me very busy for hours and hours and HOURS!!!! I cannot wait to start on it. He bought me a full replica scale model of one of the First Fleet ships called The Supply. It is incredibly detailed and it looks like a mega challenge to build. I can't wait to start on it. I have some other little projects to tackle first though, as soon as I finish my last exam which I will do in the next couple of days.

HMS Supply 168 tons was the swiftest sailor in the first fleet and acted as a scout and message carrier during the voyage. She was the first to enter Botany Bay on the 19th January 1788.

Size: L:700mm H:540mm

Scale : 1:56

Holidays January 2008

Our annual Boere holiday started on 7th Jan with one week of camping at Old Barand then a week at Loes' farm. Old Bar was an ok place although the beach was a bit stoney and windy and the caravan park was a bit lacking in facilities. But we really had a good time.

Camping is a time for relaxing,

Enjoying the beach,

Playing with cousins

Reading trashy novels

Being silly

Eating junk food

Playing with water

Swapping toys

Riding trailbikes and watching sunrises

Making dodgy movies and playing in the pool.

Family Tragedy

A sad blog today... :(

Our beautiful, crazy dog Kissah died suddenly last Sunday night. We took him to Paul's sister's place so he could share our holiday with us. We thought he would be SOOOOOO happy on a farm for two weeks. I drove him up there and he was such a good boy in the car and on our break. Wim was there too so Kissah had someone familiar to follow around for the first week while we went camping. We had to get him a tick collar and some flea stuff so he didn't get sick up there....

On the Saturday Paul went up for the day while I did some shopping in Forster with the girlies. When he got there Kissah was shaking and Paul noticed straight away. Then he noticed that he was bleeding from behind and he was also throwing up. I can't believe noone noticed anything was wrong with him before this! Anyway, he took him to th evt who didn't really know the cause of all this. He gave him some tablets and told Paul to watch him overnight but he said Kissah was a healthy young dog and he would be ok. He died peacefully during the night while Wim was watching him.

It's all a big mystery what happened to him. We thought it may be a snake bite, but the vet didn't think so. He suggested maybe ratsak, but we don't use it and Loes and Wim said they didn't have any there either. It's very frustrating not knowing what happened to him and we can't help blaming ourselves for taking him there in the first place. We should have left him at home. It was sad to come home today and see his kennel here and no crazy happy dog waiting for us. We'll have to get a puppy soon.

Hannah doesn't quite understand what has happened, she knows he was sick and went to hospital. She knows he died and went to heaven and he is with "Puppy" the Ferret. It's also sad cause Marc and Evelyn's dog Zeus died a couple of months ago too, he ate some snail pellets. So we haven't had the best luck with pets lately in the family.

Wim buried Kissah on the farm down near the dam and we planted some trees there yesterday.

We'll miss that crazy dog!

:(