Run Walk Crawl…

As I complained below, I was dragged out of my warm bed early on a Sunday morning, to participate in the Terry Fox Run. Cunningly, sis not only got me to buy the T-shirt for charity, she even stayed over at my place to make sure I’d get up and go instead of just snuggling further down into my duvet!

We thought we’d be kiasu and go early. The event was due to begin at 8.30am so we thought getting there by 7.30am would serve us well to get us car parks. Boy were we wrong! The parks were full by the time we got there, and it was only by a stroke of luck that we got any parking at all!

Yes, thats my rather pale hand pointing at the start and end point of the run. They were only just inflating the plastic arch when we got there, and the people you see are only the tip of the iceberg. More pictures will be found over on Pink Elle when she deigns to write about this.

As I was standing around, eating free bananas and drinking sponsored water (You know, people don’t think twice about taking or eating sponsored stuff, why are sponsored posts on blogs bad?! But anyway…) and trying to pay attention to sis who was yelling at me to warm up, I noticed something a foot.

This is what happens to your sneakers when you fail to use them regularly. The glue holding the base to the sole must have hardened and dried, for it was flapping away as I walked! This tells you just how often I exercise (not often at all) and how often I wear this pair of shoes (not since I trudged around Ayers Rock/Uluru 3 years or so ago). So, after getting irritated with the incessant flapping, I took the bit by the teeth and pulled off the whole bottom layer. Fortunately, there was some sort of grip on the sole so it was ok to walk on. I will need to get it glued back at some point in my life though.

So, the rest of it as they say is history. I walked, I completed the course (the easy one) and I had ice cold milo and muffins after that. We did not see Kennysia though sis was keeping an eye out for him, but we did see loads and loads of other people. The crowd turn out was amazing and it was heartening to see that most people were in the official T-shirts which means that most people did their part for charity! Hurrah for everyone who participated!

Pink Elle will put up more pictures (I hope) because it was her camera after all

And finally, a picture of Paris Beaverbanks:

Hey! All I promised was a picture, I never said I was going to show my face This is my terrorist militia impression although I also did an impression of Lawrence of Arabia:

And I just noticed the fella in the back of the picture, standing on the right. He has his hands over his face. He must be terribly shy too!