stampede

Now I've totally done it.  Allowed the kids to talk me into doing the Stampede with them.  I know why they want me to do it.   It's not just so we can do a family thing together.  They want to totally humiliate me.   Like the time a few - well several years ago when we decided to go do the 1000 steps at Ferntree Gully national park.  I felt great until about half way up.   I looked around me and the kids had disappeared.   I bent over and 'read' one of the plaques that were located along the steps.  I huffed and puffed and gasped for breath.  It was obviously interesting reading as I read it for quite some time.   Finally I decided to move on - a little slower this time to truly enjoy the beauty of the walk.  A couple of minutes later my youngest Cameron appeared  in front of me.   Come on mum he encouraged everyone's waiting for you at the top and then he took off running back up the steps to again join his siblings at the top.   Well not this time guys.   I might have been unprepared for the 1000 steps but this time around I'm a little older and a little wiser and you guys are also a little older and if my reckoning is correct not any wiser and a lot unfitter.   So from today I'm going to be in training so even if I do come last it won't be a totally humiliating last.  I will come last with style and dignity.
By the way the Stampede is a 10 k endurance run around a mud and obstacle course.  There are no winners it is done for the fun of it and to raise money for lifeline and canteen.  I don't know when or where the fun part comes in but hopefully it won't be to agonizing.