The trail shoes get a outing

The Trails shoes just been used

For the first time in a few months, I bravely put the trail shoes on and headed out for a off road run.

But where to run? That is the question. I didn’t want to go somewhere too technical. That rules out the Crater Rim. I could do Rapaki, but thats a hill and this is a easy week. I could go up Harry Ell, but that would only take me 40min and I supposed to do 90min. I am not going to do Burwood Forest, because it is just EVIL!.

That leave Mcleans Island track. Ok, no probs with that, won’t take 90 min, but can add do a bit of loopy loop somewhere. So off I head. I was being rather paranoid, carefully put the feet down, always looking, taking the long cut, because that bit looks a bit dodgy.

But man I felt like crap. I had no energy, I could run and keep running, but I was not going anywhere fast, the legs felt heavy. It had nothing to do with the terrain. Unfortunatly it rather dimmed my joy of being on the trail again.

But the ankle came out of the situation unscathed. Actually it was the other ankle (the left ankle walys been the most dodgy ankle, the right one is the one I did in). So I shall take what I will from that run and move on.

I think I was just really tired or not 100% because last night I slept a full 11hrs away undisturbed. I went to bed just feeling awful, woke up feeling like I slept way too much. Had a 2hr bike ride, and to start with I felt grotty, but I climbed up Hackthorne and perked up and then headed to the kiwi before back down and a bit along the flat. I was feeling way better by the end.

That happens alot. When I feel kinda awful if I do a rather intense 5-10min I actually start to feel a whole lot better. It seems counter intuitive to me.

This afternoon, it was back to looking at more houses (I am pretty much over the damn search thing). We came across 2 we rather liked, that is rather surprising (considering in the last months we have seen about 1 we liked). 1 is in Halswell, hmm we expanded our search a bit further, not sure about Halswell though, seems a bit far away. But in reality its not really. The house was nice, was in 70s style, so a bit out dated but has potential. It already had a offer on it and we weren’t prepared to make a decision that quick, so might already be sold. The other was in Cashmere, yes in Cashmere and on the hill. Actually way up the hill by Victoria Park.

It may go way out of our price range, goes to Auction in a few weeks. But it has awesome potential, but would mean we would have to sell our current place rather than rent. But it would be so cool to live on the hill again. I swoon at the possibility. Though could you imagine, after a long ride, rather than starting with dyers Rd, I have to finish with it. I get good at climbing though