I’ll be honest. I just had that moment with my sister online and I’m still laughing, days later.
A few days ago after work I was mucking around online. You know the 7pm drill. Checking socials, looking at emails that you didn’t get to during the day and trying to feed the dog, when you also realise you don’t have one and you’ve been putting food in a bowl for no reason.
That is a different story.
While I was online I sent my sister and her running buddy a message.
Now let me remind you. A few weeks ago, all three of us ran the 20th edition of the Sydney Marathon after having it postponed numerous times due to COVID. We all enjoyed the experience and all said “I’ll never do this again..”
Well, the other night I sent a message to Katriona and her running pal Serena to see if they had thought about doing it again? Her reply, some 10 seconds later was “hell yeah…they sent me an email to see if I was going to sign up for 2023..?”
I was a little taken back by it after hearing those “never again” words come out of her mouth. So, after numerous emails and messages back and forth over 30 minutes, we are now all locked in to run the marathon in Sydney again. Yes, again.
We laughed and laughed and then I went to bed as I had my usual 4am wake up alarm to deal with.
All I can say is, never say never. Anything is possible especially from this bloke who didn’t train at all for the run, but that’s my own fault.
I’ll say between now and September next year, I will train. I will get stronger, and yes I will compete in the Mackay Marina Run beforehand and various other fun runs around Mackay and the Whitsundays.
If you see a tall wobbly “jogger” running strangely around Victoria Street and Mackay Harbour, give him a honk and a shout-out. He’ll need it. He may be still laughing, but hey that also could be after effects from looking in the bathroom mirror at 4:01am!
You can join Rob Kidd from 5am weekday mornings on 4MK 1026 AM in Mackay and Proserpine, 91.5FM in Airlie Beach or just ask your smart speaker to play 4MK on iHeartRadio!
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