Thursday, August 24, 2006
Jim runs his personal best 10km
Last weekend Jim and I went to Noosa for a 10km and 5km run, respectively. Jim ran his personal best in the 10km by 2 minutes, finishing in 36:30! I ran the 5km and finished 8th out of 70 something people (walkers included). The first picture is of Jim before he started the race. He was to get the camera when he was done and take a picture of me finishing my race. Unfortunately, I ran so fast he missed me! Therefore, I've included another picture of me and the other 2 gals (Louise and Amy) that finished the cycling teams time trial a few weekends ago. I'm on the blue bike...On another note, John Bruch has arrived to the land downunder. Tomorrow Bonnie arrives and we're all 4 off to Ayers rock and Cairns for the week. I'll post photos of the fun later.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Queensland Team Time Trial Championships
Today Jim and I spent the day in Laidley, a town about an hours drive from Brisbane, to compete in the Queensland state team time trial championship. It consisted of teams of 3 or 4 people working together to get the fastest time (your team time was recorded when your 3rd team member crosses the finish line. Jim's race was about 76 kms. They finished with 3 out of their 4 team members (Jim included) to an 8th place finish. Jim and Gavin were the two strongest guys on their team; the other two were totally buggered and their legs were smashed when they finished. Dave was so buggered he could hardly walk and needed assistance to sit down because of his cramping legs...
My race was around 37 kms. We too, finished with 3 out of our 4 team members together (me included). We raced ourselves into a 4th place finish out of 8 teams, in just under an hour at 59:59!
You can see the photo of my team above (from left to right: Eve, Amy, myself and Louise). Jim's team above at the starting line from left to right: Jim, Gavin, Dave and Shaun.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Finally...A post of the new pad
Sorry about the huge delay between posts. The move across town was successful. We now can leave our car parked for the majority of the week. Jim is only a 4 minute bike ride to work and I am only a 15 
minute ride to 
school. The new 
neighborhood is much closer to restaurants, little shops and the grocery store - so very convenient. The apartment is a bit smaller than the last one with no individual garage, but we do have secure undercover parking. We now have a much larger deck as you can see in the photos. Jim has built us a bike rack so the bikes can be easily stored - what a handy guy he is! Another bonus for me is I now have a dishwasher and a washer and dryer in the apartment.In two weeks I will be finishing up with my forth teaching period of classes. That means I'll be 2/3 the way done - I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! The classes are going pretty well. I've been able to get to know some of the other students pretty well which makes it nice, especially since it is a very diverse group of students.
Jim has been working at lot at the bike shop. He's also been leading some of the weekly rides - which leave at 5:30am! Yep, they're all early birds here. The other guys at the shop have really taken a liking to him (who wouldn't) and are really going to miss all his help when we leave.
The other photos of us are from the Australia Zoo (Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter's zoo) which we visited last weekend. The elephants got our hands full of slober and dirt when we were feeding them...
