Two Ocean's Fun Run

I had every intention of keeping up with my little nephew on this 5 km fun run but after 5 minutes I realised that was going to be impossible!  So I took it easy and enjoyed walking and chatting with Jo, punctuated by some occasional running.  We didn't break any speed records, but thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere.  And we had enough energy to sprint the last 100 metres to the finish in front of all the crowds!!

Matt and Ant finishing The Two Oceans

Thanks for the photos, Jo.

Family do The Two Oceans fun run.

Thanks for the photos, Jo.

Matthew does a 5 km run

Matthew did a 5 km run today with Joanne. Here he is with his medal. What an achievment!

Balmoral Burn

I went to the "Balmoral Burn" today with Charles and the Mosman Camera Club to take some photos. Basically the Balmoral Burn is a 420 meter road race straight up a hill starting from Balmoral Beach. The races are split up into fun categories like kiddies and parents, dogs and their owners etc. - and some serious categories too. It was a lot of fun but there was quite a bit of pain etched onto faces too - it's a steep climb. I was happy to take some snaps from the sidelines and not compete on this occasion.
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Dogs and Owners Race - Mack would have loved it!


Kids and Parents Race

This little guy wanted to make it all on his own!


This muscle bound chap opened up a huge lead at the start of the "professional" male race and pummelled himself up the hill only to collapse and end last.


Runners

The harley warriors helped keep spectators off the track

Paraplegics Race - amazing to watch these guys power up the hill with arm muscles thicker than my thigh

Skateboarding - down the hill this time, not up...

An assortment of cute pooches. Mack would have been in good company...

Cheshire Triathlon

Doing a triathlon was a life goal for both of us. Despite our rather lax training, we did rather well. 250 metre swim, followed by a 20 km cycle and a 2.5 km run. A great sense of achievment afterwards - and I'm now motivated to attack a longer in a couple of months time. Colleen did it with us while Steve supported with gusto. He's going to do it next time too. A great day out.

Unwinding after. Silly devils through bread.

Our new Audi: Ally got to borrow an Audi A4 from work for the weekend so we drove up to Cheshire in style. We could rather get used to a car like this!