Leaving the Outback

Well considering we have been away nearly two weeks I thought it was about time I gave you an update of how the running is going. The first few days we were here Andrea just did some light jogging. Partly because of the swelling on her ankles and also to allow her to get used to the heat and jetlag. By the later part of the first week, things were pretty much the way they would have been had we been in the UK. The first couple of weeks here coincided with a mid-season break so she has been mainly steady running. Over this weekend Andrea is doing her first proper session of the trip, a 9mile tempo run around a racecourse in Horsham. The next day she is doing a 1h50min long run. If all goes well she will have completed her biggest ever mileage week of approximately 95miles. You’ll know how the tempo has gone by whether Andrea mentions it in her blog tomorrow!! After not running a step for 5months I have started doing a few easy runs with Andrea. I have no intention of racing later in the trip, but I still enjoy running around some of the towns and cities that we are visiting.

Running aside we did more travelling today, only four hours though, as we left the sweltering Mildura for the smouldering Horsham (South Australia is still suffering a heatwave). We have left the outback well and truly behind now as we travel further south through the state of Victoria. You can no longer see for miles across the arid plains as trees and farmland now line the highways. Also the towns are also no longer 200km apart which is comforting if anything were to happen. On our journeys the wildlife game still continues. Today not far into our journey I spotted a ’sleepy lizard’ crossing the road and promptly jumped out of the car to get a photo. He looks like beardies fat cousin.



Apart from that there is little else to report. We had a look around the town and then had fish and chips and a few drinks in one of the bars. I’m a bit miffed as they always seem to serve in half pints unless prompted. Who the hell cares about responsible drinking!!


Wimmera River running through Horsham

Tomorrow we are heading to Melbourne, where we’ll be staying for a week. We will be stopping off in the Grampian’s National Park along the way as we’ve heard it’s a good one.