Monday 10th October - Wow, this time in 4 weeks it is all over, but a memory.  But a pretty cool one!  5 sets of 2 minutes on, 2 minutes off this morning, so a pretty quick session overall.  This week is a lighter week with a 13 km jog for wednesday and a long run for the weekend that I have yet to decide on distance for.  Programmed is the 32 km run, but I decied a few weeks ago to make the last 2 long ones bigger and this one smaller, as it will be only 3 weeks out from race day.  I'm thinking somewhere from a half (21 km) to 25 km for this weekend.  I am open to suggestions, having done a 31 and a 35 in recent weeks.

It is school holidays and I have t aken today off work to hang with the kids.  Luca has been shipped off to Pr Lincoln to hang with my sister and her 4 girls, so I am left with only 2 girls - so quiet!!!  They didn't want to come to the park with me while I did my run this morning, so they kept playing in their room.  All good.  Then we hiked up My Lofty, home for lunch and swimming lessons, which leaves me with time to day dream (and do 4 loads of washing!).

My investigations started with a link on facebook by the Amy Gillet Foundation - a bike safety charity I donate to every year, and every year I also participate in 'Amy's ride'.  Last year the kids and I did the mini version (25 km) which was a pretty good effort - Milla was only just 6, Charlie had only learned to ride without the training wheels 6 weeks earlier and Luca was not yet 8.  This year, it is on November 6th, so I'll miss it for the first time.

So, this made me look up the Inca trail run.  That looks good.  Surely I could do that in less than 11 hours?  And then, the ultimate.  Antarctica.  I could waitlist now for 2014 - that could be a 40th birthday present to myself.  I don't know how I would train for running in the snow in March, given that is at the end of summer, so the hills won't be remotely cold for months and months.  I need to give that serious thought.  I really like the idea of it.  Then I could do the 7 continents marathon thing.  Very cool.  (Looks like I have changed.  I now like running.  I like the challenge.  I always knew I liked a challenge.  I didn't think I could like running, let alone planning trips around the world to run)

Tuesday - weights, very hurriedly between work, kids dinner, meeting and so on.

Wednesday - 10 km run with 8 km of 10 km pace stuff.  Then another busy day trying to fit all of everything in.... school holidays.

Thursday - weights

Friday - work.  And an afternoon rest when I finished at 5 :)

Saturday - Work, a strong core class, a snooze, yoga and weights.

Sunday - a 5 km run to yoga for an hour, then a 21 km run.  Then a walk down to the local for a relaxing afternoon in the sunshine.  3 weeks to go now - only 8 more running sessions and only 3 more weights session until the marathon.  That's 4 more running sessions here in Adelaide, 2 in Brisbane while I am at a physio conference, and 2 in NY!!