Well we are now finally into 2012. I say finally as 2011 was quite a tough and stressful year. Of course it was good for the birth of my son but in many ways incredibly stressful. It was a year where we shifted home not once but twice to a different island, a year of no income and living off savings, I had a baby and we had to learn to be parents and of course the most stressful was the year of the earthquakes which for everyone in Christchurch is still continuing and they are nearly up to the 10 000 mark for earthquakes in ChCh since September 2010 with the big ones occurring Sept 4th, Feb 22, June 13th and then Dec 23rd. So pretty much every time you think things are improving they start again. We have been down in Christchurch since December 23rd so literally a few hours after Benji and I landed there was a 5.8 and then a 6.0 earthquake and then of course the many aftershocks following that ever since. At least we had a break from all of that from May through to December whereas most residents have been through the whole lot and the stress from that would be immense. We have been staying with my parents who live in the South of the city so I must say that the aftershocks don't feel nearly as scary as when we lived in the North East in Parklands. I do wish they would stop though as Christchurch is just the most perfect place to live if it weren't for the constant rolling. We have so enjoyed being back and to be honest I don't really want to leave. I just love training up on the Port Hills and if all goes well with my career in the next few years we really hope to come back to live permanently.
So training has been going really well. It has been great having the longer hills to train on and I really feel it has helped with my strength on the bike and the run. I have now passed the peak of my training towards Wanaka with my longest bike session being 6 hr and run session being 3 hr, and now with the race 3 weeks away I am going to back off slightly. We are now in Oxford (50k north west of Christchurch) for the next 10 days before we head down to Wanaka. Can't wait to get there and get back out on the course!
Benji has also reached some major mile stones. He started sitting up by himself at 5 months and now at 5.5 months he is in the early stage of crawling. He can only go a metre or so at a time before becoming too tired but I am sure over the next few weeks he will be off properly and destroying everything in his sight! I think we will be in trouble!
No photos this time unfortunately as we are on our travel computer. Happy New Year to all!!
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