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Nov 10th: Thanks for all the Birthday cards!!! No breakfast in bed, just big km's, the weather has been conducive to running, locals warning me of hot weather due fri/sat, they're going to be scorchers. After this mornings run I spoke at Bairnsdale Primary School, the students sung Happy Birthday to me!
The crew used the time while I was talking to St Mary's Primary School Studnets in town to blow up some balloons, wrap some presents from the kids and decorate the bus. Lighting 33 candles around a plate of colour-free lollies, and lighting a big 33 candle.Going out for an evening run had a bit of stressy issues hanging over my head, we have to be in Bega for Monday as JDRF has organised a radio interview. I know if I can't make it i can always do it on the phone, but it's like someones given me a mini challenge so I ran and ran until we got to a good place to pull up. No major town, just a nice quiet place.
One thing I look forward to with mile stones, is reverting back to our map at the end of the day and seeing that tomorrow I'll run off the page and onto a new one. Mile stones have been important to me, small ones like road distance markers, counting down the 5km or 10km into town or roadhouse, the medium size ones like making it to town or city, especially when they are hundreds of kms apart (like Broome, Port Hedland, Carnarvon, Geraldton, etc. Actually since leaving Mt. Gambier the rateof towns we have been through has increased so much we are almost in a "real" caravan park every night, and it is hard to get a clear picture of the last few days as all the towns seem to mesh into one
Nov 11th. As far as good and bad days go, it was a good one, I started running on a fresh page on the maps. Even more exiting than that though, it has a tiny section of the south of NSW on it changing states is a big milestone, it won't be until I've done my day in the ACT next friday though that it'll feel like it's a pure run home. I ran past a sign showing the km's to Sydney. Things are definatly looking up!
After a long morning run, we went back to talk at some schools, at Lakes Entrance, we were able to go to a Rememberance Day service, find an organic fruit and veg shop, visit the school , returning to crank out a lot of kms. Windy, hilly slow k's. My calves are aching a bit I think from the hills. The painful arches in my feet that have until this week only been a problem when I first get up in the morning, don't seem to warm up these days. The pain is present through much of the run, coming and going.
Nov 12th This is the hot one maybe 32 deg later, reaching Cann River last night was a huge bonus. The crew have taken the kids to Marlo Beach. It's definately going to be a late and dark run tonight. Ladies in town have predicted a thunderstorm, so we'll play it by ear. The roads have started to get windier. Gone are the freeways. Hard to think that in 2 weeks tomorrow this will all be over. I've been thinking of some other things I'm looking forward to; this year I've banned myself from high heels and platforms, being seen in very boring sensible shoes for engagements on the trip as I was scared of twisting an ankle or, with heels, tightening my calf muscles in a different way than how I need to use them for running. One pair of shoes that have actually caused me trouble though was wearing my crocs. I was getting cramps and I realised that I was scrunching my toes up to keep them on when walking around. They weren't very good for camping in anyway, you can't kick the embers around in the camp-fire for example We are doing our last school talk in Victoria later this afternoon in Orbost, ahead of finishing the Cann River to Genoa run tonight. Looking forward to crossing into NSW tomorrow!
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