Running With Dogs

I figured out how to set the alarm on my new clock radio today and woke up to the skirl of the bagpipes played by Battlefield Band - we’ve seen this band about 3 times - twice here in Brisbane and once in Scotland. They always put on a good show and it was a good way to wake up. I went into Redcliffe and there was quite a large turnout today. I started my run with a girl new to the group, she was only doing 5k or so, and we started out nice and slowly. When she turned back, I ran with Muz, who really pushed me along. He was good company and we had a pleasant chat, but in spite of the slow start he got me to the 10km mark in 57 minutes and something, including 3 water stops. That’s around 5 minutes faster than I’ve ever gone. We finished 12km in 1 hour 11minutes and some seconds, and my legs were knackered after that. It’s good though to stretch myself, I’m not sure I would have done that, loping along listening to Andrew Denton, and I’m pretty pleased with the run. The obligatory vanilla latte afterwards went down really well.

I had the choice of tidying the house for the in laws coming for dinner, or going out geocaching with the dogs and the family - needless to say, the housework lost. We picked a couple of caches to find up in the Glasshouse Mountains. I figured there was a lot of state forest up there so it’d be safe to take the dogs for a walk. Unfortunately both caches turned out to be in National Park areas, no domestic animals allowed. We ended up going to a patch of forest in Wamuran and just going for a hike for an hour or so. We found a dead cicada with its wings intact, such a perfect pattern of veins in gossamer.

Master 5 is a Transformers fan, and loves to watch a DVD from the library - he sings along with the sound track, and we couldn’t figure out what he was singing. “Transformers, automistyprime” was his interpretation, but we’ve just figured out they’re actually singing “more than meets the eye!” I guess when it’s a robotic voice singing, it could be anything, but it had us chuckling.