Noosa was a re-bound race from San Francisco, but all the same less than 3 days after arriving back home, I was on a plane again travelling north to Queensland, Late Friday night ..... a rushed one, last minuite hotel bookings, flights rental cars...... BUT I got there.
I paused on the way thinking what the heck am I doing, than I realised I was chasing the 1hr 30min time I seek.......
For this challenge I decided to support a worthy cause, read more about this in the Blog on Giving the marathon challenge a purpose......
So for every 5 mins i knocked off the time, $100 went to a charity, so now im not letting myself down but some one else.
All said and done, I got up at the early morning all primed for a nice fun 21 kilometer jog, and gave it a good crack to 1hr 30m but ended up with a 1hr 38m 55s I say I was still tired from the week before.
This town was a great spot, relaxing chilled and nice people, the race had less than a 1000 participants so a good field, the weird things about this was it was 2 laps of exactly the same course, so I got to the end and had to do it all over again - talk about messing with ya mind!
I was pretty tired at the end!
The weekend really was an opportunity to relax in Noosa - BUT I did manage to knock a good 7min 34sec off my San Francisco time less than a week ago, than I realised, this week I have travelled almost 28,962 kilometers to make this happen, lost two nights sleep in Transit, and bounced back with enthusiam and passion to Noosa!
Overall $200 went to Beyond Blue - the national depression initiative which is doing some great work, if you have time check out the POD cast by Jeff Kenett and Nathan Thompson as they speak of personal experience and the importance of raising the awareness of depression for youth and people from all walks of life.. we can all do something to support, educate or help people against this debilitating illness.
I say bring on the next half marathon challenge!
Jeff
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