Its In Writing

I picked up visiting Sydney Strider Angela on the way to South Bank this morning. She joined in a Pat session while I just did a 5k walk. The walk was pretty uneventful. It rained a bit. I stopped and chatted to a few runners I knew along the way. Did a bit of stretching back at The Ship Inn until the group got back.

It was great to see everyone again. Even though I've only missed a week and a half it seems like much longer. There is quite a buzz about the 3k Challenge tomorrow night and even though I won't be running fast, I'm glad that I can still participate. We worked pretty hard on convincing Strider Ange to join our team, hopefully she won't have too big a day at work and will feel up to it.

Pat now has a white board at training and everyone is writing down their goals on it. Quite a few of the team, including Clairie, have put down their first marathon as a goal, and that's mighty big. I thought about saying a sub 3:25 marathon, but that 'just' means knocking less than 2 minutes of my 2005 GC time. I wanted something mighty big as well.

So grabbed the marker and took a deep breath and wrote Poor Man's Comrades. I want to do it in under 12 hours but I didn't write that down. Until just now.