August- The Month of Running

Over the past 5 weeks Jason and I have been training for the Sunshine Coast Marathon Runs. Jason was training for the half marathon, 13.1 miles or 21K, and I was training for the 10K or 6.2 miles. I have never been much of a runner, I remember not even being able to run the mile for volleyball tryouts in highschool. However, much to my surprise a little practice and training went a long way. Jason on the other hand "enjoys" running so he was a good, somewhat annoying trainer. In the evening after work we would run the 5K trail together and Jason would usually go a bit further to get in the extra distance. Jason was training for a half marathon in Lexington but was unable to run it due to an injured Achilles tendon, this was on his "bucket list" for Australia and he did it!!  On August 18, we ran the local Bontanic to Bridge 8K fun run to prepare for the next weekends big race. The following weekend we spent on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Mooloolaba. The race was on Sunday so Saturday we enjoyed seeing the beautiful area and even went out on a "Maiden Voyage" with our friends Ann and Chris on their new boat. It felt so great to be back on a boat, although, ocean boating is much different that lake boating we still loved being on the water under the amazing Australian sunshine!