The race is on.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
What a day! Started
with Luke and Cindy running the Geelong half marathon. About 850 runners in the half marathon. Beside the “Look out for Snakes” signs, not a
lot of signage but enough to get our runners to the finish line. Luke finished in 1:38.04 and Cindy finished in
1:50.43. Excellent results for a broken
training schedule. A cool and pleasant
morning, excellent for a run. Of course,
they give out top three prizes out for every category, except for the under 20
category, in which Luke finished third. Laughing,
as they are handing out the awards, one of the organizers leaves in his truck,
and attempts to drive up the incline next to the presentations. However, the ground is soft from the rain
last night, and he ends up sliding backward down the hill into the middle of
the award ceremony and almost wiped out some kids standing at a table with
boxes of bananas on it. The announcer
handled it well with the statement, “We will just pretend that this is not
happening.” and then continued announcing category winners. There was some food, and they did give all
the runners a piece of sausage, so Nate and Levi were happy. We then took the afternoon train into
Melbourne and caught the Hawthorne Hawks host the West Coast Eagles (Perth
team) in Australian Rules Football at the G (Melbourne Cricket Grounds). Of course we missed the train, and therefore
missed most of the first half, but that worked out all right because each
quarter is 30 minutes long, so we still saw over an hour of actual play
time. For never really taking a look at
the game before, what a great evening of entertainment. A small crowd of 30 000 (the G holds over 100
000), they were lively and passionate about the entire game. The Hawks won their first game of the season
handily, but both teams played hard until the final horn. Again, what a fun game, continuous
action. Someone gets injured, the
trainer comes out and looks after the injured while the play goes on around
them. At the end, the home crowd sings
their teams song, and then they show the team on the big screens in the
dressing room singing their song with the team start in the middle of the
circle. On the way out, Karen and Ashley
bought the boys an Aussi Rules Football, which they have been busy passing and
kicking to each other.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
What a day! Started
with Luke and Cindy running the Geelong half marathon. About 850 runners in the half marathon. Beside the “Look out for Snakes” signs, not a
lot of signage but enough to get our runners to the finish line. Luke finished in 1:38.04 and Cindy finished in
1:50.43. Excellent results for a broken
training schedule. A cool and pleasant
morning, excellent for a run. Of course,
they give out top three prizes out for every category, except for the under 20
category, in which Luke finished third. Laughing,
as they are handing out the awards, one of the organizers leaves in his truck,
and attempts to drive up the incline next to the presentations. However, the ground is soft from the rain
last night, and he ends up sliding backward down the hill into the middle of
the award ceremony and almost wiped out some kids standing at a table with
boxes of bananas on it. The announcer
handled it well with the statement, “We will just pretend that this is not
happening.” and then continued announcing category winners. There was some food, and they did give all
the runners a piece of sausage, so Nate and Levi were happy. We then took the afternoon train into
Melbourne and caught the Hawthorne Hawks host the West Coast Eagles (Perth
team) in Australian Rules Football at the G (Melbourne Cricket Grounds). Of course we missed the train, and therefore
missed most of the first half, but that worked out all right because each
quarter is 30 minutes long, so we still saw over an hour of actual play
time. For never really taking a look at
the game before, what a great evening of entertainment. A small crowd of 30 000 (the G holds over 100
000), they were lively and passionate about the entire game. The Hawks won their first game of the season
handily, but both teams played hard until the final horn. Again, what a fun game, continuous
action. Someone gets injured, the
trainer comes out and looks after the injured while the play goes on around
them. At the end, the home crowd sings
their teams song, and then they show the team on the big screens in the
dressing room singing their song with the team start in the middle of the
circle. On the way out, Karen and Ashley
bought the boys an Aussi Rules Football, which they have been busy passing and
kicking to each other.
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