Top of the World Rankings

One of the advantages of racing in the southern hemisphere at the beginning of Januray is that there is a good chance, if you win your races, that you may end up top of the world rankings list. Thanks to KiwiRun Andrea is currently top of the world rankings for the outdoor 3000m and 10000m! We’ll now be checking every day to see how long this streak lasts!!

Here is a link to the site that you need to check everyday… It’s interesting to note that the half-marathon time is around 90s quicker per 10k that Andrea’s world leading time, but I’m not going to let that spoil it.

Top of the World!!

Apart from that moment of excitement the day was pretty quiet. We have been enjoying our relaxing stay in the beautiful seaside town of Noosa, where we still have one more full day. It’s nice not to have to wake up and drive 5 hours to our next destination which has become a part of our lives whilst in Oz. Our main activities were a short trip to the beach for a swim and then later on sitting outside on our porch in the warm afternoon.

In the evening we rented the Disney animation ‘Up’, which we both really enjoyed. It was a bit of an emotional ride for us. One of the things that particularly struck a chord was that the main character had a book of the things that he wanted to achieve in life that he had made with his childhood sweetheart (who later became his wife). After his wife passed away he couldn‘t bring himself to look at the book as he believed that they had not done any of the things they had wanted to achieve. Late in the film he flicks through the book and sees photos that his wife had put into the book (when she had been ill) of many of the fun moments they had had together. A touching moment. Me and Andrea couldn’t look at each other at this point because we both had tears in our eyes! Definitely worth a look if you get a chance, and, don’t worry if you think it’s all sad as there was a happy ending.