Merry Christmas to you all. I've just had a look at the website and it seems people are running pretty well. We've hardly
been doing any running (as you may be able to tell from the photos) but
we're having a great time on our round the world trip.
We're now in the South Island of New Zealand, having arrived last Saturday from Sydney. Australia was great. We spent a month in Western Australia
doing a trip north to the Ningaloo Reef from some snorkelling and hired a car to go south from Perth seeing loads of massive
trees and climbing one aswell as doing some wine tasting around Margaret River.
From Perth we then flew to Melbourne and hired a campervan. We drove along the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide and then back
to Melbourne for England v's Samoa. We then decided Melbourne was too cold and wet so drove north to Brisbane, via Canberra. We then did a couple
of surfing lessons and lazed around on beaches on our way down the coast to Sydney, where we stayed off and on for a couple of weeks, with a brief trip
to the Blue Mountains for some walking. We were in Sydney in the run up to the final of the rugby and the atmosphere was pretty amazing. We managed
to watch Oz v's NZ in the semi on a big screen on the steps of the Opera house with 4000 others which was brilliant.
After a few more weeks in the South Island doing walking, mountain biking, kayaking and white water rafting we're off to the North Island for a few
weeks then onto Fiji, the west coast of USA, then New York before coming back in March.
It doesn't feel like Christmas here - it's summer and we're not going to the usual parties and stuff in the run-up but we're still having a great time.
Hope you are all well. Happy New Year too!
We've attached a couple of photos of us while we were in Australia, one of us in the Botanical Gardens in Canberra and
the other of us and a possum, on the coast near Sydney.
James & Lucy
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| James & Lucy relax by the waterfall |
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Whilst late that night they invite the locals for a meal! |
25/12/03
Christmas Day Run!
Just in case you thought nobody could run on Christmas day.........this annual 3ish mile race in Warwick attracts a great number
of runners; not least at least 6 Kenilworth ones. First back for them this year was Mick Williams.
Mick Williams 19.29
Richard Steele 19.59
John Mc Nally 20.31
Jane Mc Nally 26.01
Pauline Dable 27.03
Jane Pithie 27.57
27/12/03
Massey Festive 5
In cold and wet conditions several runners tackled this 5 miler in Coventry to try and blow away that Christmas turkey
Mick Williams 29mins 03 secs
Richard steele 29.45
Richard Elliott 30.12
Martin Dorrill 31.13
Isobel Partridge 31.52 (3rd lady)
Jane Mc Nally 38.17
Pauline Dable 40.26
John Jones 42.41
Kristy Dable 45.38
28/12/03
Huncote Hash
On a bright Sunday morning Julian Tombs and Mick Morris of Kenilworth Runners
travelled to the Leicestershire village of Huncote for the annual 'mud splash' 6 mile cross country race.
The race starts in the relatively grassy field by the leisure Centre but after passing through a little wood pass onto a muddy track that gets
worse as the sand quarry is approached. Skirting the quarry the course passes over some very muddy fields before the steep climb to the top
of the local eminence 'Croft Hill'. Whilst only a short climb the hill was covered by icy grass which made the climb very difficult and the
downhill that followed to take runners back over the fields to the first obstacle - The Stream which the runners run up for about 100
yards and then into the Sand Quarry. Due to recent rains this was very sticky - so sticky that Mick Morris left shoe fell apart and he
had to run with a bare left foot for the rest of the race. After several steep climbs over mountains of sand the race returns to the field
by the Leisure Centre and to the finish.
Julian Tombs had an excellent run in difficult conditions and finished in 47 minutes and 34 seconds whilst Mick Morris followed him in a
time of 66 minutes and 15 seconds despite having only one shoe for the last two miles.
Sunday 7th December