Off to Melbourne!

So I haven't taken many pictures this week. It's been the last week before break so I've done a lot of running around making sure all of my assignments were done and submitted properly. I've had one grade back, I didn't do fantastic but didn't do poorly either so I'm happy for now. Hopefully the grades will improve with time!!

Sadly there isn't much else to report. I did find out that a really wicked opportunity that I was given was prohibitively expensive which was a pretty big disappointment, but I think I'll do something similar in December anyway. Trying to look on the bright side!

The only photos I have are from the run I did last weekend with a lovely girl from my program. Needless to say I didn't take too many photos as I was running, though I seriously considered it because it was a gorgeous day and there were dragon boat races happening on the other side of the lake. So really I was pretty distracted for most of the run because I was watching what was happening on the water. Maybe I wasn't as serious about the 5k as I could have been, but I wasn't in any rush really, just wanted to do the 5k without walking, which I did. I came in just under 35 mins which isn't great, but for being 5 weeks into the 13 week 10k training, I figured it was forgivable :-) Here are some photos I snapped before and after.

These ladies have done the run every year, and seeing as it was the 25th anniversary, I'd say that's quite an accomplishment! They were cutting a cake which I thought was a little weird to do before we all started running, but I guess that's the way it goes.

I don't actually know what this is a picture of, but I took it as we were all by the starting line. So I guess it was last words before the race began.

These girls were the BEST! They couldn't have been older than 11-12, and they were all dressed up. Needless to say they won prize for best costume!

This was post-run, watching the awards being handed out. The top ladies to finish were done in about 18 minutes. Crazy!!

Simon and I are off to Melbourne tomorrow, so the next time I post I will probably have many more photos to put up. It's raining here today, I hope this isn't an indication of what it's going to look like over the week in Melbourne. If it is though, being from Vancouver, I'm sure we'll deal with it just fine!

Til soon :-)