So this is 2014?
I started my near with The New Year's Eve Midnight Run. It was a 10km trail run through the hills in my hometown of Adelaide at midnight. Well, we started at about 10:30pm, ran for about an hour, saw a few scorpions and kangaroos, stopped to watch the fireworks at midnight, then ran back to our cars. It was through The Swashbucklers Club and I was lucky enough to be joined by about 15 other awesome people who also thought doing something like this would be a great way to bring in the new year.
It was damn hot out there, so it was tough going for me. I went out and ran the course at about 6:30pm and laid out glowsticks to mark the way. It was about 35c degrees when i did my first lap of the course. I then met my partner Ky and we dragged a cooler full of drinks up the hill to our stopping point so everyone could enjoy a nice cold drink while we watched the fireworks.
Even at 10:30pm when we started running it was still about 30c degrees. Then we went out on New Years morning to take all the glowsticks down. So i think i covered about 25kms on NYE and another 10 on new years day. But overall, a fantastic way to start my new year.
Onto things literary, I've also been lucky enough to team up with the guys from TrailRunner magazine in the USA to share some of the content from my new book in daily bursts of inspiration. It's a great way to spread the word and hopefully will get plenty of people off to a good start to the new year. (and sell a few books! ;-) ) It's an exciting opportunity - especially as the team there loved the book so much.
And finally, no, it's not a mistake, i've signed up to the 2014 GoodReads Book Challenge with the goal of reading a whopping 6 books. Yes, for the entire year. The truth is between working and writing and running, i haven't been reading all that much lately so i've been realistic with my goal... but all jokes aside, it really is one of my goals to read more this year so with any luck i can at least FINISH some of the books i've already started reading. Hopefully that counts... :-)
Happy new year all.
Dream big. Run far. Read lots.
It was damn hot out there, so it was tough going for me. I went out and ran the course at about 6:30pm and laid out glowsticks to mark the way. It was about 35c degrees when i did my first lap of the course. I then met my partner Ky and we dragged a cooler full of drinks up the hill to our stopping point so everyone could enjoy a nice cold drink while we watched the fireworks.
Even at 10:30pm when we started running it was still about 30c degrees. Then we went out on New Years morning to take all the glowsticks down. So i think i covered about 25kms on NYE and another 10 on new years day. But overall, a fantastic way to start my new year.
Onto things literary, I've also been lucky enough to team up with the guys from TrailRunner magazine in the USA to share some of the content from my new book in daily bursts of inspiration. It's a great way to spread the word and hopefully will get plenty of people off to a good start to the new year. (and sell a few books! ;-) ) It's an exciting opportunity - especially as the team there loved the book so much.
And finally, no, it's not a mistake, i've signed up to the 2014 GoodReads Book Challenge with the goal of reading a whopping 6 books. Yes, for the entire year. The truth is between working and writing and running, i haven't been reading all that much lately so i've been realistic with my goal... but all jokes aside, it really is one of my goals to read more this year so with any luck i can at least FINISH some of the books i've already started reading. Hopefully that counts... :-)
Happy new year all.
Dream big. Run far. Read lots.
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