So nearly a year on, I am preparing to head back to NYC for marathon weekend. Not to run, but to volunteer.
I have had injury and illness that has allowed me 3 comebacks. Currently in the throws of the 3rd and getting some kms under the belt just to be able to do Dash to the Finish on Marathon Eve without passing out.
Since the Barossa, I have run some respectable training runs as well as the Adelaide Running Festival 10k which if it wasn't for an extra km, added on I would have finished in a respectable time despite crippling cramps a few hundred metres from the end due to lack of mid race fuel.
I did miss my beloved City to Bay this year due to illness. Nearly 8 weeks of chest infection knocked me ou. I still got away with 2 weeks of running in the middle and getting up to 11 kms which was the longest I had done since NYC last Nov.
So now, we begin again. With a goal in sight, the NYC Half in March 2015, the training begins again.
But before it begins in earnest, it is back to The Big Apple for what is billed to be the biggest reunion of the Dungog Dashers.
Looking forward to seeing all the usual suspects, of which there are too many to mention.
There is a second picnic, a trip to Philly, to run the Rocky Steps with Walt and Zrinka, Motley Crue, Dr Oz and Dinner with Linda's Running Club, the NY Flyers with none other than K Switzer as the Guest speaker.
The big day, Marathon Sunday, will be spent at Mile 18, volunteering in the morning and cheering in the afternoon with my beloved Dashers.
As I write this, it is 7 sleeps to go.
I've got 4 days of work and a Rolling Stones show to go before I get on the big jet plane.
I'm horrendously unfit. I've lost my marathon fitness now twice and I know that pain it is going to take to even get half marathon fit.
Goals are set now, bib is paid for. Here we go.
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