I have not posted on this Blog for a number of years, and am going to use my return from injury as a catalyst to start posting more. It has been a long 3 months of being injured, and after 3 months I was able to be back running again. On top of being back running again, the family and I took part in a one time event at the new airport in Western Sydney.

To say that is has been a tough couple months has been an understatement, 2025 seemed like a year where nothing could go wrong and achieved so many things. I have not had the best start to 2026, and I won’t go into the injury right now. This post is to celebrate being back running, which should not have been a race and trust me I did not treat it like a race but did not follow my run walk return either.

When I heard about an opportunity to run a race on the Runway of the new airport, I entered the kids and I straight away. I entered us in the 4km race, and there were a number of other racing distances on throughout the morning into the early afternoon. For us the 4km was the first event to be run, and basically was half of the runway compared to the 7km which was the entire runway. The other events were simply laps of the 7km course.

While I have been out injured, Heath has managed to train himself up and truly increase his aerobic capacity where he is wanting to achieve a great result in the upcoming cross-country. What was extra special about today is that he managed to take out first place, and set a course record that wont be broken again.

So, now its up to me and being smart about my return to run, and build slowly. I know its not great when you are running continuous for your first time after not running for 3 months (sorry Tom Hamilton), but this was a one time only run that will never happen again.

The next couple weeks are going to be very conservative running only twice a week which will involve run walks. A typical jogging session will be: run 3 minutes, walk 1 minute and repeat that 5 times. The run will be at about a 6 minute per km pace.