Woohoo, did my first half marathon yesterday and it was brilliant! I gave the course a wee bit too much credit and set out quite slow over the first few kms, but picked it up from 8km to get a time of 2hr 10m. I reckon next year i can break the 2 hr mark on that course for sure. People had been going on about the harbour bridge being tough but i found the roads of the north shore from 8-12km harder. I'd only run 16km before the race the week before, but it's amazing how far adrenalin gets you on the day.

4am start, ferry to devonport at 5.30 and race start at 6.30. After the race, annabel, tommy and i went house hunting and by 7pm i collapsed. Have just woken up 13 hours later! Knees are suffering a wee bit...

national disaster, depression, wow is me...the all blacks have managed to confound everyone and most of all themselves by choking yet again in the rugby world cup. Yes, the referee was poor, yes, the french defense was brilliant, but come on guys, there was no excuses for that shocking second half display. Knock on after knock on, boring drive after boring drive. 4 more years...at least we'll be on home soil...

Did a 10K run along tamaki drive again, this time with the GPS wristwatch thingy which was great. Went out with an (ex) marathon runner from work and unfortunately set out at a wee bit of a faster pace than i could maintain across the entire trip. Is great to be able to analyse the whole race, particularly for a geek like me. 58 minutes was the total time with average pace of 10.4km/hr. This is as boring as the tech posts isn't it?

Woohoo! My GPS wristwatch thingy has arrived. It measures distance, speed, elevation, heart rate, calorie count as you run. Even allows you to race against your previous runs and export the runs to google maps!

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=349 

Thanks for the tips Carin! We got our new plate last week, one of the benefits of living in a small country means the number plates can be a bit easier to read..