..ok...ill fess up then!!

..lol..ok eat em and em- you are correct-i had very specifically not answered the question you asked. and yes you had sussed it right. somebody we all knokw will be moving in with me :) im quite looking forward to it actually-then he will be STUCK with my bad jokes!!!!!!! lol..but i didnt want to say it til i had asked him if he minded if it was said on my blog


yesterdays session was the last training session with the boys so i asked my coach if i could run with them even though it was a completely different session..hes a good lad and said yes of course... so 6min warm up...then 6x3min efforts..i was pushing hard..with only 60s breaks....whew it was a tough one..on muddy grass
so todays session(legs were pretty tired going up and down the stairs....two hard sesssions in consecutive dayss)
50 mins in the pool so equiv to 8kms

oh and ive done more than 1000 kms this year --woohoo..and more than 200km this month..my most ever

piccies of the house

..some quick piccies..well heres one of my fave rooms the kitchen and the hang around bit:

last nights training sessions was 6x800m at slightly quicker pace usually im supposed to do the 800component of my 1km reps at 3:40(which is 4:35min/kms) but since they were just 800s-its was at 3:30 which is about 4:22min/km pace

so the 800s went like this

3:26(um went too fast first 200-legs felt a bit proppy and un-natural

3:28 legs still not moving fluidly

3:28 can it really only be the third set-maybe i forgot one

3:30...finding it pretty tough..stu was it only 5 i had to do??NO...bugger

3:31..and breathing VERY VERY hard

3:27- tried to not let the last lap slow..

much better than 1km reps....apparently stu was planning in having the set faster but given an 8km race(+3.5km warmup/cooldown) and 90mins sunday the little leggies were somewhat fatigued..and his training had let him know that i wouldnt manage it

so 7ish kms altogether. shins had been kinda sore for the last few days-but were actually okay once i warmed into it.

stu and i went and had dinner with my aunt and uncle last night-they are just so lovely :) and hes a great cook!!!!

..oh and the tenants are moving out before settlement so the moving in process will begin on sep 10!!! and lol at ems comment yesterday!!!!

.okerly dokerly

..so it is getting more and more OFFICIAL by the day(buying the house that is) the loan got approved today-assuming the building inspection is fine then it is a done deal..scary/exciting/scary/excitingumm keep going
..anyway we move in, in november..oh and andrew-point cook-see a photo of the kicthen below-it is just too cute

40mins water run today-so--so-in a double lane(i went up middle to try and keep out of the way(so people didnt have to over take) but the swimmer boy nearly kept hitting me in the head cos he deicded to swim as close to me as humanly possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!so equiv to nearly 7kms... at my actual house tonight which is a bit wierd.spent nearly all nighton phone to gfs ..am all out of sorts

OMG- all of a sudden I AM AN ADULT

let me start with- i am absolutely flabbergasted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i ummmmmm BOUGHT a house today...... OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i only actually decided to definitely buy a house last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG i cant believe now(subject to finance, i am officially a homeowner-and ummmmmm yes i did buy the house before i got the finance-who would expect it to take less than a week!!!!!!!!!!
(i have browsed the... net of course L) a couple of times in the last few months. anyway -it is a 3BR cottage with 2 bathrooms, a walk in robe and a cute little back yard. and there are tenants at the moment who are getting married in october-so i am letting them have an extra month or so than the minimum time i could kick them out so moving in in november....... oooh scary/exciting and ummm scary all rolled into one!!!! gotta love looking inside one house and it being the ONE! yay!!!!!
RUNNING
leggies were decidedly unhappy about the whole running caper today..and when there were hills my legs complaining noise level went from the low grumble of a little dog into the snappy growl of a doberman...lol..who spotted a postman...double lol ;)
so you yangs it was...i ran with someone for 35mins but sadly the next 55mins was by myself(not fast enough to run with the others) could only manage 5:42min/kms today so 15.7kms... and then took a gf out for lunch for her birthday..very expensive and they tried to charge us for 2 bottles of wine instead of one..lucky stu(whatta good lad(he even found me the house!!!!)) checked the bill

then a spot of shopping(for the last time in a while i might add) and for the rest of the afternoon have been ruminating about what furniture i have and what i will need


oh yeah guess what 200kms(well 197.7 so far) this month!!! i dont think i have EVER run 200kms in a month....woohoo!!!!!!!!! and and and and..breathe miss jojo i have done 1000kms for the years..OMG(yes it includes water kms) but OMG thats so cool for me...one of these days oi may even accept that i am actually a REAL runner(im still in denial...as really i used to be a squash player who also ran-but given i am a retired squash player now.......)

and i dont even want to count how many times i have used the term OMG today...a million perhaps?????????????????????????????????? lol

run run run run

well.... on thursday- i wasnt quite sure if i would be able to run today. apologies for being such a sooky la la-but to be honest i was in a helluva lot of pain.. a bucketload of wines later(cos i couldnt sit down-could only lay on the ground :( ) got me to an acceptable pain level..whe the back decided to play like that-it is about the only thing which alleviates it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
..anyway lets ostrich on that front for a while..its in not so good phase-it will come out of it..and it was slightly better on friday and then a bit better again today...i am sitting as we type..woo hoo!!!
so racing at bundoora.OMG HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW tough is that course... i was very happy in the end with 4:42min/kms only 2 s perkm slower than geelong so all in all i would have to say a better run.... some absolute killer repetitive hills..a 2km lap followed by 3km lap followed by 3km lap...!!!!!!!!!!!!! so very happy with my run....very happy i COULD run (still cant bend to pick stuff up-have to do lunges to pick stuff up...lol!!!! it doesnt afect my speed or anything though so dont think there are any excuses... heckled stu while he ran....i know its mean but i get a PERVERSE pleasure seeing him grimace when he runs(not in the gf sense) but in the athlete sense ..ie as in how much pain he puts me through in training..... errrrr 3x2kms reps spring to mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
put in an offer on a house in point cook-it was lovely-but offer is below what they what and there is someone else making an offer-its a wait and see :(

oh and went to the worst run chemist in the word..BIG gripe coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! apparently it takes more than 11mins to take a packet off the shelf...ok here goes ..there is ONE lady who can get the medication (no problem with that as she is the pharmacist...well LADY stay in the medicine cabinet thingy and DOLE out the damn medicine...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO she comes and serves people(not with medications) puts their 'scripts' in aliitle basket and LEAVES the damn things there...once everyones baskets are now queued up-she MAY and i stress MAY go and get one lot of medication!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! damn it...it could have all been done in 3minutes instead of 11- 2 people serving and setting up the 'baskets' meanwhile pharmacists girls stays and fills the medications...pronto..not exactly high LEVEL thinking caps needed there......f%ck a DUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..phew needed to get that off my chest...but seriously...how hard is it to work that OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..sooky la la today

havent read anyone elses posts tonight yet- and let me say i have no REAL reason for being so sooky :( well no more than normal

today was a VERY bad day....my back hurt to the extent where i took panadol!!!!! i never ever take panadol for the back if i plan on running as i believe i need to be aware of how much pain i was in..Obviously i didnt run..and when i got home(to stu's) all i could manage was to lay in the dark on his bed for a while trying to make the back not hurt... sometimes when it hurts,,,its hurts to stand it is excruciating to go from sitting to standing(it has been a bad week!) i didnt even go running in the water!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i suck...i think im also a bit more emotional than normal.,but i did have a little sook..one year ago-i could do ANYTHING and never think anything of it... now everytime i think about doing ANY exercise i have to think in ter,s of my 'long term back' injury..yep a one year injury is NOT apparently enough..and no im not feeling sorry for myself(well in actual fact i guess i am) my friend today said ..do you want to play in our netball team..errrr no..my back cant take it..another friend asked me if i wanted to play in our work soccer team..errr no
..anyway..have had a wine or three...lol..trust me -it kills the pain more than anything else..no dinner yet :( no wonder i became an alco last april(when i injured the back)

anyway sorry i have just bitched and moaned...but am a bit OVER the whole back thing today


..anyway... on a good front..stu went and looked at some places today...so im going to go and have a look at a place that is a quick sell if it sells on saturday..just looking at all the things i would need to do

...uuuuuugggggggh i smell.......................

like chlorine that is.i went to the pool for a 45 min water run at weribee today(back kinda lousy today so no way was i going to run)...1.8m all the way. i usually rave about it- well they had one swim squad start before the other had finished so there were no public lanes(this is 15imins into my run) anyway i asked the pool lady and shes like they will finish soon, so ive kinda said..well i cant run in the small pool cos i touch the bottom..anyway she was particualrly helppgful :) and let me run in the lane where she was giving one kid a lesson..i tried to take up as little room as possible. I also made sure that i went and thanked her again, after i got out of the pool. as i was very appreciative.
work was pretty good, except for the fact-im going to have to do worked solutions to one chapter out of the year 12 books-there are so many mistakes in the solutions in the textbook- i dont know what the people who wrote it were thinking-very very bizarre..

not a very exciting dinner today(obviously it was me making dinner...lol) i didnt get home til after 8 so all i made was a chicken roll:( but it also meant i have my lunch for tomorrow prepared as well

hope things went well for Em

i feel for you hon, after all the water running we did last year-it is very difficult to go back to it