On Saturday I had my last ride with the group for a while and then back home to chill out and pack. Sid and Seb had a late afternoon nap in the hope that they'd stay awake until we took off for Frankfurt at midnight - then the hope was that they'd sleep until we landed or almost. Amazingly the plan worked a treat, daddy even got to watch the movie "Ironman" (strangely not a piece of Lycra in the whole movie) and Kung Fu Panda - cool!
My sister, Angela and brother-in-law, Marcus, had kindly driven 3 hours to collect us from Frankfurt and took us back to the Black Forest. Spent the day chilling out and then ate a huge bowl of spaghetti we then went for a run through the forest with Angela and Shilpa - great idea but eating the spaghetti first wasn't such a good idea. We survived 5.5k and felt a million dollars.
I then ran again the next morning, evening and then again this morning - 40k under my belt already - the plan is to exceed 300k in three weeks plus a bit of swimming and biking. Running with Angela's running club this evening and then going to make my nephew Jan suffer tommorrow morning on another 11k jaunt.
Weather is awful today, pouring with rain from the moment we woke up and pretty cold for us - we're loving it - the air is pure elixir and the scenery straight out of the Sound of Music - to top it all I had the biggest ice-cream sundae that man has ever conceived of yesterday with Rocher chocolates - life is good.
Sid, Seb and Shilpa are loving every second of it too, the boys are just lapping it up.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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