{"id":32598,"date":"2019-07-26T02:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=32598"},"modified":"2019-07-26T02:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:31:54","slug":"july-23-25-2019-aussie-aussie-aussie-oi-oi-oi-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=32598","title":{"rendered":"July 23 – 25, 2019 – Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi-rival!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(See what I did there?)<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to believe it until the wheels had touched down at AYQ.\u00a0 I still didn\u2019t want to believe it until the cabin door opened and the ramp was lowered.\u00a0 Even then, I expected the flight crew to announce everyone was welcome to deplane\u2026 except Kevin Hanna who should remain on board and fly back to Sydney.<\/p>\n

And yet, somehow, after 14.5 hours to Sydney, a truncated layover at SYD, and another 3.5 hours inflight, I made it back to the outback.\u00a0 On time.\u00a0 On the right day.\u00a0 This was happening.\u00a0 What should\u2019ve happened 4 years ago was finally happening.<\/p>\n

I was going to get the full TravellingFit experience of the Outback Marathon\u2026 including actually RUNNING the Outback Marathon!<\/p>\n

But first, a quick note on getting here.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of crossed fingers.\u00a0 There was a lot of anxiety and worry.\u00a0 And there were more than a few glasses of wine:<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s when I really got a little worried on my way down under.\u00a0 Somehow when the flight computer shows it\u2019s going to take 2.5 hours to go the remaining 18 miles, one begins to suspect that d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu and irony are having a massive party\u2026 and I\u2019m the guest of honor.<\/p>\n

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Still, turned out to just be a glitch and we eventually landed.<\/p>\n

I had written 800 words on the travel and the snafus and the minor annoyances that seemed major at the time.\u00a0 But it only served to make me seem all the more unhinged and self-obsessed and I\u2019m trying a new thing where I put myself in the shoes of my small but mighty readership \u2013 yes, I\u2019m trying to write FOR you instead of just AT you.\u00a0 Hence, A LOT of on-the-fly second guessing and Control-Z\u2019s undoing of prose.<\/p>\n

The short, short version \u2013 Mom\u2019s a trouper, I\u2019m a diva.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the end of the story, or the beginning of the next.\u00a0 Call it in medias res.\u00a0 Thus, we cut to:<\/p>\n

EXT. AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK \u2013 DAY<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been here before\u2026 but it was much more frantic on my part four years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019m still frantic and oddly terrified of this upcoming run, but I got a big hug from Lee Peacock at the hotel and throughout the day, TravellingFit people would tell me they were glad to see me on-time this year. When Michael spotted me at the fun run, he stopped what he was doing to give me a hug.\u00a0 At the welcoming dinner that first night, head honcho Mari Mar rushed over to hug me as well.\u00a0 I felt like the honorary Mayor of TravellingFit for a moment, and was reminded once again of why I love this tour group so very much.<\/p>\n

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(See what I did there?) I didn\u2019t want to believe it until the wheels had touched down at AYQ.\u00a0 I still didn\u2019t want to believe it until the cabin door opened and the ramp was lowered.\u00a0 Even then, I expected the flight crew to announce everyone was welcome to deplane\u2026 except Kevin Hanna who should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}