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Angus and new shoes

Today, on our first day back from our Hawkes Bay holiday, we went for what was suppose to be a normal, done many-a-time, 10 KM run. But when we arrived at about the 1/4 mark, which is at the yacht club, we saw that there were buoys out in the water with hundreds of swimmers going round. Turns out that today most of the waterfront was off limits due to a triathlon that was happening.

Not to be deterred, we detoured (see what I did there? Deterred and detoured sound similar! Eh? Eh??) Anyway, we went as far as we could, which took us around Te Papa museum, and then decided to run up to the Botanic Gardens, which from where we were was up hill the entire way. Actually, that is a lie, the first bit in the city was on the flat, but almost half of the run was up hill today.

We started out running through an old cemetery that is in the heart of the city, then up, and up, and up, and up to the Carter observatory. During the run, Kristie and I got our signals mixed as to when we'd be turning around, and when we got to the point she thought we were turning around, she was a wee bit disappointed that we still had more hill to climb.

The hill was quite difficult and taxing, but I found that after we finally reached the peak, and started running downhill, our legs recovered quite quickly and we were able to complete the run without too much effort. So it looks like the training is going well.

One other good note is that Kristie and I picked up new running shoes today. The ones that we got last time are still in good shape, but with winter coming and the rains that come with it, we wanted to have a couple pair of runners on hand if one got wet. In order to break the new shoes in, we're going to try to wear the new shoes for the short runs, while keeping the old ones for the longer runs.