Monday, May 14, 2007

A Long Weekend of Mountain Running


Look at those sexy pins! How could anyone resist? And as for the footwear...aren't gaitors just the sexiest things since support tights? The photo was taken during our last serious training session before we attempt the Wicklow Round. I was blogging about our entries being finally in over at Team Geared Up. Flickr photos from our training session here.
They're not hairs on my legs by the way. I believe I'm tough but I'm not male. They're multiple scratches from trying to bushwhack my way through burnt gorse and being stupid enough to wear shorts. I also fell down a bog hole, well one leg fell down it and the other hit the side so pain, pain, pain (for about 2 minutes).
Well we're entered now and it looks like we'll be the first to give it a go. Fingers crossed firstly that we complete it, all being safe and well. And secondly that it takes no longer than 24 hours. The big day begins in the early hours of Saturday 26th May.
Yesterday was spent runing legs 3 and 4 of the Wicklow Way relay. Again more blogging about that over at Wednesday Night Runners.

There's so little time for anything these days with all that's going on. Since the start of the year we had the Snow Race, the Connemara Ultra, the Adventure Race and coming up we have the Round and the Relay. I'm taking two weeks off work while Grace is doing her exams. Luckily for us she is studying while we're doing all this running so she doesn't mind that we're not around.

10 comments:

Midget Wrangler said...

You must never stop,Running is obviously a passion for you. Thanks for the comment on my blog, my first one! with all your running you never need to wear a corset:-) Gok Wan is the presenter on How to Look Good Naked, I love him, You just want him as your best friend,he'd be great for gossip and shopping!Thanks again for the post, hope your daughter is happy with her exams, I have a couple of years before my eldest goes to second level, thank God!

Mick said...

The Jungfrau will be a cake walk (note clever link to previous post) for you after all those events and training. Don't those gaiters come in pink?

Itsnopicknick said...

I'm glad you managed to crawl out of the boghole 'cause we would've missed you!

aquaasho said...

MW they're in secondary before you have time to say "terrible two's" but it sounds like you're enjoying it! We'll be a party of 5 ourselves soon so will be checking your blog for tips on how to survive! (First comment is such a thrill!) (And as for the corset I could do a boob-corset as they have disappeared with all the running!)
Mick aren't those gaitors rotten! But they really work, the week before I spent a lot of time picking pine needles out of my socks! But the salomons are the best, I was the only one with dry feet!
Spoon that's so sweet of you to say! If the boghole continued on and on maybe I'd end up in SA?

Itsnopicknick said...

Are you suggesting we're at the bottom of a boghole??? huh? LOL

aquaasho said...

I never was much good at geography Spoon!

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