Run Melbourne 2016

  My last preparatory run for Run Melbourne was eight days before the event. Perfect to be outside. I even Instagrammed it.   But after less than two kilometres, I was in trouble. The lower half of my left leg was sore and cramping. I tried to press on for another couple hundred metres, thinking…

What I’m Loving Lately

1. Public Libraries We are lucky in Melbourne – where in other parts of the world pubic libraries are closing down, here they seem to be holding steady, if not doing better than ever. We were in Carlton at the new Kathleen Syme Library on Friday and I dusted off my Melbourne Library Services card…

Well, it’s official

I enrolled in the half marathon today, set to go next month (Sunday 18th). I think my personal trainer thinks I’m mad, but at least she believes I’ll finish. Note I said finish: not finish well. If I crawl over the line, so be it. Oh well, I’m not running to break records. No, I’m running…