No running but lots to do!

Sunday-Monday - 12-13/11/06:
Have taken 2 days off running after Saturdays huge effort. Want the legs to be well rested in preparation for Saturday, so will be doing an easy 6km on Tue & Thurs and nothing more.
Legs were feeling a little stiff on Sunday, but thats hardly surprising after the hills and off-road stuff I had done... To answer your question SD, I sure hope this will become at least a semi-regular outing, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Will just have to see if I get invited to tag along again...

Weekly running total: 36km - keeping it low for the week in the middle of two HMs!

Saw Rachel today, my usual physio. The inside quad area of my left leg is still quite sore and lumpy, but not bothering me as much as it was to walk on. However after working on it she ordered sessions of massage and ultra-sound on it every day this week! She says it is rather a major area of strained muscle, that actually starts at the groin, which she thinks made itself known due to the massage session, and that this is a good thing... ! She probably thought I was mad for doing such a long run on Saturday, but knows better than to waste her breath lecturing me! The other thing I really like about Rach is that she explains everything to me, so that I can learn from it and hopefully avoid it in the future.

Otherwise it was a very busy weekend and a hectic day at work today... It was great to see so much coverage on TV from the Armistice Day ceremonies in London and particulary the NZ memorial in Hyde Park Corner. Very touching stuff, although apparently Prince Charles fell asleep during Helen Clark's speech! Ha! In sport, it was fantastic to see the All Blacks thrash France so convincingly (47-3) and also in Rugby League, the Kiwis really sticking it to the Poms! (34-4) Only low point - our triathletes did not have a good day at all in the final stage of the ITU World Champs in New Plymouth, where the weather was horrendous... Oh well, can't win em all!

Finally worked everything out for the trip to Kerikeri HM... almost! Have the babysitter organised for Fri night and another for Sat. Confirmed that I can get a ride up and back with Rob (its a 3hr drive when theres no traffic) and can collect my race pack from the start on the day... Only thing is, ALL accommodation is now booked solid in Kerikeri ! Its only a small township, right up near the top of the North Island and out on the East Coast of that. I am now attempting to find somewhere in the next small(ish) township, Paihia ! Fingers crossed!