A windy run, a milestone & a fan
My wife and I have the Adra Half Marathon coming up this Sunday so we wanted to get a nice easy 12km in yesterday morning.  Our babysitter (Grandma) needed to be out by 8am so we left at 6 so that we would have a good buffer. Unfortunately it was very windy and so running was quite tough at times.  I kept thinking that it was funny that I could run a marathon but still struggle on a 12ker! There were very few other runners out on Tamaki Drive (unlike just before the Marathon!) but we did meet one older gentleman who ran with us for a few km.  He managed to impress me greatly when he casually mentioned that he’d recently run his 106th marathon! The hi

My favourite online store
I can strongly recommend Running Warehouse for anyone who is in the market for running shoes/apparel. Note that this is a personal recommendation and I’m not getting anything from them. I just spent $US380 ($US59 was on shipping) which comes to just under $NZ500. 

General Update
I’ve finished Week 01 of the 100 push-ups challenge.  It’s good to be doing it again I find.  I did daily totals of 49, 60 & 62 for a total of 171 push-ups for the week.  That can’t hurt the fitness efforts I’m sure!  I’ve found the 100 push-ups iPhone application quite useful in this regard as it provides a timer and a log etc.  I can recommend it for sure. I’m back on the running bandwagon and have done two runs this week so far.  A treadmill run on Monday evening and

Next challenge is an old challenge
I’ve had a few people ask me what is next in terms of running and I’m going to be doing the Adra Half Marathon on the 29th of November.  I’m going to run this with my wife and I’m really looking forward to it as it will be her inaugural half marathon. However, my next big fitness challenge is to get the 100 push-ups challenge out of the way. I was very fortunate in that Steve Spiers, who is the mastermind behind the 100 push-ups craze, sent me a copy of his book:

Auckland Marathon 2009 Race Report
I did not sleep much last night.  I guess I was a bit nervous about the event and that got my brain buzzing.  After a lot of tossing and turning I finally fell asleep about 2 minutes before my alarm went off.  Well that’s what it felt like! I have this thing about always being on time and so I like to be ready early so I think I did really well to catch the second ferry of the morning rather than the first – unlike last year! I was in Devonport at about 5am and I almost immediately bumped into fellow blogger Aaron. We had a good chat about the upcoming event and then headed our separate ways. The star