Went for a run today -first one in a week and a half. 9 weeks to my first Half Marathon. It was good -quite slow, but then I was stopping to take photos as well as being a bit slower than usual due to the time off training, so that’s ok.
Here’s some of the pics:
I tried to do a couple of caches in the city this morning. The one in Hyde Park was abandoned after an agressive Indian Mynah bird started swooping me repeatedly. I spent a good hour at Pitt St Mall looking for a high-difficulty micro, but it was apparently too good for me. I finally had some luck at Town Hall, where I found a neat little micro. The pages of the tiny log book have gotten damp at some point (no surprise) but it was in pretty good nick considering. This made my 7th find, and the second cache I’ve found by myself (I haven’t got a good track record by myself! Haha)
Whilst there I also snapped a great shot of St Andrew’s Cathedral reflected in one of the windows of Town Hall:
I’m starting this blog, for several reasons. To have somewhere where I can record my training and discuss my thoughts on how it’s going. To have somewhere where I can record my life as a sort of keepsake to look back on. As a way of connecting with others with similar interests to me. And as a place to put my rants and ramblings when they force me to express them.
I have a bunch of interests. I have recently taken to describing myself as having too many hobbies. Invariably, the response I get from friends/family/acquaintances is “you can never have too many hobbies!” I disagree. Being in the position of having too many Things I Like To Spend Time On, I find that I rarely have time in a week, or even a month, to do more than a couple of them. My day-to-day life is quite full, and trying to fit any leisure activities into it is tricky. Subsequently, I end up doing only a few each month and the others are neglected. Eventually, one of my long-lost interests will pop into my mind, and I’ll feel disappointed, or in some cases guilty, that I haven’t kept up with it. But that’s how it goes.
List of things I enjoy/hobbies/interests:
And of course, being added to the list just now, is:
Obviously lots of these overlap each other. The vast majority of these interests & pastimes are things that would each require some long-term commitments in time, eg, language & piano classes, exercise, gardening. Others require me to be free at the same time as others, ie, to host a dinner party for my friends. Speaking of friends, they tend to want to see me on at least a semi-regular basis. And I already work full-time and study part-time in evening classes, which leaves me with very little leisure time to pursuit all these hobbies.
As a result, some of them -no, most of them, are in varying stages of neglect. I haven’t done calligraphy in a few years. I’m not currently taking piano or German classes. The vegie garden out back hasn’t been touched in 2 months (it’s badly overgrown with weeds and I need to get into it soon if there’s to be a winter harvest this year). Some are skills I never became good at (let’s mention the calligraphy again here, or website building perhaps) or that I still feel I’m very much a beginner at (running, nutrition, geocaching, actually.. most of the list). I’m hoping that I will find the time to write on this blog at least once a week -I think it will be useful in helping me keep my thoughts in order! It will probably be primarily a training blog as I work towards my first Half Marathon this May, my second Sydney City2Surf in August, and then head back into triathlon season after that, but I’ll also run free with anything else on my mind 
Anyhow. So suffice to say, at the ripe old age of 24, I’m looking forward to retirement, when I will have time to tackle more of these things at once!!!
