Back again

It's been a while since I last posted and I guess the honest reason got that is my running hasn't been to flash hot recently. A one year old baby and a full time job have unfortunately conspired to keep me down a bit, and after a niggling groin injury surfaced at the t42 off-road marathon in May, keeping me out if training for a couple of weeks, I never really got going again. But summer and longer nights, as well as a new job which a) has fewer hours, b) has a shower and c) is at the end of quite a nice running route from home mean I'm keen to get right back in. 

Tarawera has also been entered for next year. After this years disappointment I'm determined to finish the 100km course next year, and hopefully this time course changes won't conspire to make things trickier again. I'm not going to make extensive time aims this year, but hopefully under 16 hours (western states qualifying time) would be nice!

In the mean time I have a few other shorter events coming up: this weekend I'm running the shorter companion race to The Hoat, the Big Kid, possibly not the best first race of the season as it includes a vertical kilometer of climb. The week after I have been co-opted into running the half marathon leg of a half ironman, which includes a bit of the Tarawera course, so promises to be scenic at least. And in late January/early February I plan to run the holdsworth race again, followed by the medium Kaweka Challenge course, 35km of mountainous grunt.  Hopefully with a programme like this I'll arrive in great condition for the stry of tarawera... Miracles can happen!