Last Sunday we had the Standard Chartered international marathon where yours truly participated in the 21 km race clocking a personal best of 3:10:43.
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Cool! Great for your health, and walking or running that’s quite a distance. Most my legs have taken me in one shot has been about 14K.
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21km is quite a distance. I hope with practice I should do 42 at least before I get to 40.
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I prefer walking my dogs
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A good pastime my friend
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It is, usually… until yesterday. We were attacked by a little shit who’d escaped from his house. He charged right into our little pack. Not good. My dogs peeled him/her open. Literally. It was ghastly. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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I don’t want to think about how that must have looked
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Nature is not pretty, my friend, not pretty at all…
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Whoa. You witnessed a dog get torn down into pieces by your own dogs, John? Damn. That must have been awful. But yes, nature is brutal indeed. It’s strange how easily we forget this.
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Ghastly, I tell you, and it all happened so damn quickly.
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I actually didn’t know that dogs can get that ferocious – to the point of actually killing a fellow dog.
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It wasn’t dead, but it would have been in a few seconds more. It’s all a blur, but I managed to rip my King Shepherd’s jaw open at, perhaps, the same moment our hound lost its grip on its other side. Whatever the sequence of events, the little thing got free and bolted, one side of its skin and fur completely peeled back and flapping like a loose pocket. Most surprisingly, there was hardly any blood.
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It’s the same when I fillet my christian infants for breakfast: hardly a speck of blood to be seen. ๐
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Master Chef
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Oui, oui my friend!
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Haha. You are a master chef.
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You think that’s bad, you should see what it’s like when Presbyterians tear up a Catholic. Whoa, momma! Talk about a bloody mess, and all in the name of the loving lord Jesus!
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Awesome, my in shape brother. I once ran 2K in under 4 minutes when christians caught me poisoning one of their wells and chased after me. They had torches and pitch forks with ’em, too. It was like a scene out of “Bride of Frankenstein.”
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Haha! That my friend was a sprint
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Good for you! My son has run in several half marathons. I know the preparation and stamina it takes. I don’t walk as much as I used to, but try to do a bit everyday.
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I prepare so badly for this races am even surprised I can walk after I finish
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I am sure you will improve on the next and next and next one. ๐
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If history is to believed, maybe not
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Good luck, friend, with future marathons. I’ve never done any. Stuck to backpacking 10โ20 miles a day. Much easier ๐
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10-20 miles is quite a distance too. Thanks. Maybe I should persuade you to join me in the next marathon
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Oh no! Anyway, I need to walk before I can run ๐
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By that time, my dear, you will be up and about, jumping and running
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Brilliant, Noel. That is quite an achievement, and an even greater goal to double it. More power to your brave intentions. Hats off to you!
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Thanks Tish.
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And not only that, isn’t the weather heating up in your neck of the woods. Phew!
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Yes, it’s been quite hot lately.
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I run to the bathroom every morning, I’m really rather proud of that – as for numbers, it’s always either 1 or 2 – sometimes both.
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Haha, that is good exercise. Hope there are no accidents
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Good job and great photos, my Nairobi brother! Nice time! ๐
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Thanks brother. You too have a good time
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Congratulations and well done! I love walking, hiking, cycling…anything but running…which unless being chased by something wishing to kill and eat me I refuse to do. ๐
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I could make you run. I like cycling and hiking too
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Oh, my. The farthest of managed is a 5K, though at one point I did start training for an 8K. Then I got derailed. Now I just do a route march with my dogs at least twice a day.
Congratulations and good luck on doubling it!
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Thank you.
At least you keep active daily.
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Well done Mak. I’ll just watch you. Enough exercise for me thanks. hahahaha! Great shots! ๐
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Thanks Sonel.
Watching me would be enough exercise too
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Whahahahaha! Indeed! If I lose weight that would be bonus as well. ๐
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Looks like you had fun! It’s good to do something different than your daily routines and by the way it’s good to see all is going well with you. I wish I had more time to read your blog… but no matter how much absent I am I always come back ๐
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You are always welcome.
I did have a good time
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Miss you Noel!
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I miss you too Kathryn.
Have you been well? I will write to you.
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Please do ๐
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