grande e anche questa e’ fatta!!

mi piacciono le sfide, nel caso non fosse chiaro. so this year with no much thinking I signed up for the Sydney half marathon. Consider that I never run before.  I mean even running towards the bus stop. I did lots of hiking last year but it’s a completely set of muscles. As I got two understand. Last September, two weeks after my 100km hik,e I run 9km on the Sydney bridge race and it hurt way more than the long hike.

So anyway comes February and I am suppose to start training. Thanks to the “pirla” (chiamiamo le cose col loro nome) I started training much later coz I was heartbroken (ha’) but at least when I started I had no doubts and it really helped clearing my mind. So when I started I was going out to run about 2kms. I step it up to 5, then to 7 and I started having split shins. Then got busy and pretty much stayed around the 5/7 mark. I wasn’t too worried though coz my goal was finishing the half-marathon and I didn’t care how long it was going to take. The longest run before the race was only 13km and that’s when I realised I was going to struggle to meet the cut off times. But as you can see from my picture  I DID!  it’s all in the head! mine is stronger than my legs

so all I have to say mimicking Nike is : JUST DO IT!

Cinco de Mayo

Here is Frida!! Totally cool to be so colourful!!!

And for the asscrossedwithadonkey exofmine. It would have been just courtesy to say hi as you show up at the party organised by MY friends. I don’t bite and you are a flakey coward!!

she runs the night

This was the best running event ever!!
very well organised, lots of fun and it felt glamorous and rewarding. it made me happy even though it was hard and it took me forever to finish.

I crossed the line clocking in 1h36′ not a great time and now the half marathon being only 16 days away is quite a scary thought.

ma per ora godiamoci i muscoli indolenziti mail morale alto. E’ stata una bella avventura come al solito portata a termine nonostante la disorganizzazione , con spesieratezza, canticchiando allegramente durante il percorso e attivamente cercando di farsi incitare dai volontari a ognisvolta di percorso. un applauso, un sorriso, unabattuta anche se banale tutto conta per andare avanti … col sorriso

Piñata making part 3

It was the opportunity to finish my piñata. However I missed part 2 and it went in a direction that I didn’t feel inspired with. My piñata became a hot air balloon, well at this stage it’s missing the basket.  Nevertheless, it was a good to catch up with friends, have some drinks, and help make decorations for the cinco de mayo party. sure it is fun!

It’s a shame I didn’t start taking pics earlier, but as we were running out of balloons someone ended up using a condom as a base for the piñata

some people are extremely creative and they arrived at the party with this incredible naval battle creation. a drinking game of tequila shots … time to leave

And since Wednesday is ANZAC day (ole for public holidays!) I kept going and joined Balazs Ben at the Hero of Waterloo for his birthday drinks.

Piñata making part 1

Cartapesta it’s all it takes to have fun tonight
Let the creative juices flowing and what do I do? Nothing mine is shaped like a balloon. I simply couldn’t care about the shape all I wanted was to get my hand dirty play with the paste of water and flour and stick layers of paper together. Badly! I had no clue, no system, no patience
Fortunatamente c’è chi è l’esatto opposto e alcune pinatas stanno uscendo davvero bene. Abbiamo un maialino, un drago, una farfalla, una bottiglia di corona, un lollipop, delle tettone, una chitarra
Settimana prossima la decorazione. Spero di rifarmi ma già lo so che vorrei semplicemente rotolare il mio palloncino di cartapesta in glitter

Easter weekend

Un intero weekend at The Entrance. It was fun, it was relaxing and it was short enough. Really I can’t figure out small town life anymore. I grew up in a small place but being in Italy it meant that we were always close to something really cool, vibrant, cultural. Take the car and in half an hour we are in Venice, one and a half hour we could be on the mountains or bologna or stretch it to Croatia in not much longer. It was a small place but in a good location. I enjoy the differences, the stimulus and oh boy I get bored so easily.

So what does the Entrance have to offer? Great for fishing apparently. As both on the way home from dinner and on my early morning run that’s when I saw more people. Man, couples, groups of students. Some with tents most with chairs. Everyone fishing. I think they must have fished overnight too.

Little life on the beach. A few sunbathers, a couple of surfers and quite a few just showing up for a quick dip and off again.

Main attraction here are the PELICANS. They get fed once a day from volunteers and they are all very punctual. You can see they know the drill and the smarter or bigger pelicans come in early to get a nice spot and some fish. Not a bad life

Charity ride

I found a motorbike Meetup online and got in touch with them almost a month ago. I went on the night ride and to their social meeting. After that I am officially their newest member Yesterday a few of us from the club joined a much bigger club for a charity ride. Together we raised $2500 for the kids and $500 for salvation army. We finished the ride at the children hospital where we went around giving out Easter eggs
It was a great experience. As it was the first time I rode with that many bikes. I think there were about 100 motorbikes. It was well organised and worked out really well. But it’s one of those things that I am not very confident doing. I was a bit uncomfortable and nervous.
Generally even if I shit myself, I still go ahead and do it. Feeling the fear.
I dunno myself what I have to prove

Going away

This weekend we were looking for paradise. I think we found signs of it …
Here

it all started with a free range rover for the weekend and I am so grateful my friend Gaby asked me to join for the trip. We were blessed by stunning weather and the crew was just the right amount of crazy. We kept a nice and relaxed pace, share a big room and laughed at silly jokes before sleep.
I might haven’t met the love of my life yet but I am very lucky I keep meeting awesome people and making outstanding friends.

28 and funny

Lo ammetto sono partita prevenuta che fosse uno stupido e quindi ora la scema mi sento io, se qualcuno mi avesse trattato da bambina a 27 anni mi sarebbero girate che pensavo di sapere tutto e niente, insomma come adesso!
Siamo andati a un comedy show, che è stato carino ma non ha lasciato tempo per niente altro. Peccato ci avrei parlato un po’. Ma boh non ho voglia di rotolarmi tra le lenzuola con lui o con altri in questo momento. Non che ci abbia provato comunque. Viene da chiedersi cosa ne caviamo a continuare a vederci. Ma si vede che abbiamo tempo e ci troviamo interessanti.

Su un altro livello ho prenotato tre voli:
Italia a giugno
Singapore a agosto ed ottobre

E mi sono detta che me lo merito un viaggio o due

Motorbike

Mercoledì sera, temperatura stupenda per un giro in moto e primo social con il gruppo di North Shore. E così ritrovo un pub che avevo visto nei miei primi mesi a Sydney. Si chiama The Oaks a Neutral Bay e tanto mi ricorda i classici pub inglesi con tanto di carvery and beer garden. Bello averlo ritrovato e aver conosciuto gente tranquilla a cui piace farsi un giro in moto ogni tanto. Anche se per me la moto forse rimane più un mezzo per andare da A a B che la gioia della lunga corsa in moto. Non saprei, mi piace perché mi porta in posto con paesaggi stupendi e mi fa sentire libera. Ma non mi da la stessa soddisfazione di una camminata o una corsetta, perché manca quella sensazione che li ci sei arrivato solo grazie alle tue gambe e alla tua volontà. Mentre premere sull’acceleratore non è poi così difficile
Ora si parla di passare un weekend di moto-campeggio a Pasqua, vediamo come va