Saturday, April 28, 2007
Sunday, April 29th 2007
Byron Bay
Sorry for the long absence but I don't always have fascinating stories to tell. I made the trip back to Byron easily and the weather has been great ever since. Easter is invariably dismal weather for reasons unknown to anyone. I did have a mishap on Monday morning. We had a great training session at Broken Head beach from 6 to 7am which was more a cardio session. I hopped on the bike and rode the two kms back home without wearing my pants (just in shorts) or jacket. In a roundabout I caught an oil patch with my rear tyre and lost control of it. I slid and hit the ground. I wasn't going fast. Lost a bit of skin around the knee area and pulled my calf muscles quite strongly. So I've been recovering from this all week.
However I've kept active and moving and this morning managed a run (normal run distance) at a slow steady pace so I'm amazed by my improvement. Which is good as I registered to do a Mothers' day run in Brisbane in two weeks to collect funds for Breast Cancer research. It's only 8 kms but until today I wasn't really sure how I'd feel. So it's all good. I'll probably skip Boot camp in the morning as I'm not quite up to sprinting yet but I'll train in the gym as I have this week. The bike doesn't look too bad but I'll put an insurance claim in as it's worth it.
On another note I didn't get the really interesting job in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics. It was right up my alley and my interests so I was sort of hoping it might come off but they chose another candidate for it. I had also been approched informally to go to France to help them plan the Rugby World Cup for a good part of this year but the Director who was interested has just resigned and his replacement is someone I've dealt with in the past and could not work with. So although he mentioned he'd be interested in having me on board from early June to end of the year, I've retracted my interest in the event. Just not my kind of work environment. So that's life. Things change and so do the opportunities in light of the changes.
In the meantime, all is good and I'm enjoying being here in Byron until I find out what I'm to do next.
Bye for now
Byron Bay
Sorry for the long absence but I don't always have fascinating stories to tell. I made the trip back to Byron easily and the weather has been great ever since. Easter is invariably dismal weather for reasons unknown to anyone. I did have a mishap on Monday morning. We had a great training session at Broken Head beach from 6 to 7am which was more a cardio session. I hopped on the bike and rode the two kms back home without wearing my pants (just in shorts) or jacket. In a roundabout I caught an oil patch with my rear tyre and lost control of it. I slid and hit the ground. I wasn't going fast. Lost a bit of skin around the knee area and pulled my calf muscles quite strongly. So I've been recovering from this all week.
However I've kept active and moving and this morning managed a run (normal run distance) at a slow steady pace so I'm amazed by my improvement. Which is good as I registered to do a Mothers' day run in Brisbane in two weeks to collect funds for Breast Cancer research. It's only 8 kms but until today I wasn't really sure how I'd feel. So it's all good. I'll probably skip Boot camp in the morning as I'm not quite up to sprinting yet but I'll train in the gym as I have this week. The bike doesn't look too bad but I'll put an insurance claim in as it's worth it.
On another note I didn't get the really interesting job in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics. It was right up my alley and my interests so I was sort of hoping it might come off but they chose another candidate for it. I had also been approched informally to go to France to help them plan the Rugby World Cup for a good part of this year but the Director who was interested has just resigned and his replacement is someone I've dealt with in the past and could not work with. So although he mentioned he'd be interested in having me on board from early June to end of the year, I've retracted my interest in the event. Just not my kind of work environment. So that's life. Things change and so do the opportunities in light of the changes.
In the meantime, all is good and I'm enjoying being here in Byron until I find out what I'm to do next.
Bye for now
# posted by AdeC @ 10:16 PM 
