Weekending - the one with the run

My weekending posts often include that Leon and I went for a run, with an identical looking selfie (like this ). This weekend we did the MVP Backyard Ultra .This is a fun format where you run 6.7 kms every hour on the hour and get to rest in the remaining 10 or so minutes. I did 26kms (or four 'yards'). leon completed 67 kms (or ten 'yards'). Skip made a movie about it, which you can watch here.

You can have a support crew, so Skip, Bee, Kris and Katie came along and crewed. the event starts at 7pm, so I was running until 11 and Leon finished at 5am.

Which, unsurprisingly means the rest of the weekend was a bit of a write off. it's been a very long time since I stayed up till dawn! Saturday we slept for a few hours and then rested and then today we cleaned the house and i put together some earrings for Kris, Katie and Mel. Mel's a relatively new friend that Kris bought into the group, but she wears colourful earrings, so I presume she'll love it.

And that's about it. Lots of sitting, knitting and reading while we are recovering (from the sleeplessness in my case, rather than the running.
All the running photos on this post were taken by Skip (Chris Scott) and copywritted to him.

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