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Vacation, Vacation, Vacation :-D

The past couple of weeks have been amazing and I feel like the old me is on the way back. I'm feeling happy, motivated, positive and excited, so much so that I've even started to look at races again as well as finally making progress with odds and sods at home that have been on hold recently. I guess our recent visit to New Mexico and Colorado has been a huge help in getting me back on track as I returned from our vacation feeling far more relaxed and feeling much better than I was a couple of weeks ago. 3 nights in a log cabin in New Mexico meant that we were able to pay a visit to the Very Large Array - the large observatory used to study the galaxy and beyond as well as being the location for some blockbuster movies including the likes of Contact and Terminator. We found it fascinating reading about the history of the VLA as well as some of the findings made in terms of black holes and stars out in space - it really does make one realise how small and insignificant...

Back to Normality Again :-)

This year has absolutely flown by and I can't believe that it's August already. It's been an awesome year so far though - I've met loads of new friends here in Phoenix, I've had several successful races and some amazing training runs, and we've had tons of fun doing agility with both Wilson and Brandy, whilst this past couple of months we've introduced Wilson to dock diving which he seems to have thoroughly enjoyed. The race at Bryce Canyon seems such a long time ago now and despite a DNF, I recovered pretty well and was back in to the flow of things within the week, With no other races planned until the Javelina Jundred at the end of October, I felt like I still wanted to make use of my fitness and get a decent race in between now and then. There are so many races to choose from and after much deliberation I opted for the Devil Mountain Ultra in Pagosa Springs, Corlorado on August 20th. This gave me ample time to recover and plenty of time to build u...