Might have to figure out a way to update this website and change the title to 'Running Through VIETNAM', as that's where I currently am! And where I plan to stay for a while too. So excited to be back here, feel like I'm on a permanent runner's high. I've only been here two nights but it definitely lives up to its famous memory. The past two days have been a happy blur of noodle soup (pho!), coffee, crusty bread filled with egg and sauce, Bia Saigon, Vietnamese rice wine in two 'different' flavours (yet tasted much the same I thought?), fresh fruit, coffee with iced yoghurt, and tofu and veggies, of course. Hmmm, actually, on second thoughts, may actually have to change the website name to 'Eating Through Vietnam'; that seems slightly more appropriate...
Although I did get in a slightly longer run this morning, around West Lake (Tay Ho). Want to see the 'real' part of whichever country you're travelling in or visiting? Check out the early morning crowd. Especially Sunday early mornings I reckon. It was all go. So much life, bustle, happiness, fishermen, market-sellers, street sweepers, dudes playing hackie-sack, cyclists in lycra, and a fair amount of people just chilling too. Running through this amazing vitality this morning has meant a permanent happy smile on my dial during said long run, and its lingering still. Actually, it's showing no signs of dissipating whatsoever. Feel like I've made a very good decision by coming back here to live for a while. They say to trust your gut/your instinct right? Every fibre in my being is shouting a resounding 'yes!' about my coming back here. So, am going with that. And it feels great.
What also felt great was finally getting my Wooters running singlet JUST in time before I left Newcastle! Oh the irony right... Here's me happily blending in with the rest of the Woot-pack after the Wootervals session on Monday night - I know right?! Like an orange Where's Wally challenge: I challenge you to find me now! (Hint: I'm in the orange top.)
Although I did get in a slightly longer run this morning, around West Lake (Tay Ho). Want to see the 'real' part of whichever country you're travelling in or visiting? Check out the early morning crowd. Especially Sunday early mornings I reckon. It was all go. So much life, bustle, happiness, fishermen, market-sellers, street sweepers, dudes playing hackie-sack, cyclists in lycra, and a fair amount of people just chilling too. Running through this amazing vitality this morning has meant a permanent happy smile on my dial during said long run, and its lingering still. Actually, it's showing no signs of dissipating whatsoever. Feel like I've made a very good decision by coming back here to live for a while. They say to trust your gut/your instinct right? Every fibre in my being is shouting a resounding 'yes!' about my coming back here. So, am going with that. And it feels great.
What also felt great was finally getting my Wooters running singlet JUST in time before I left Newcastle! Oh the irony right... Here's me happily blending in with the rest of the Woot-pack after the Wootervals session on Monday night - I know right?! Like an orange Where's Wally challenge: I challenge you to find me now! (Hint: I'm in the orange top.)
I am really going to miss my fellow Novocastrian runners though - both the Five30 and the Wooter varieties!! If any of you are reading this: please come over and join me for a run or a race here in Vietnam!!! We can paint the town Red or Orange, depending on your preference or allegiance.
Actually, there is THIS event later in the year, and whilst, no it's not in Vietnam, it's in Cambodia (just next door) and how amazing would it be?! A half marathon through the stunning and wondrous Angkor Wat?! Plus it's for a great cause and raises relief for victims of antipersonnel mines in Cambodia (and is attended by many landmine victims each year) including funds for prosthetic limbs and social reintegration programs, amongst other things. Check it out: http://www.angkormarathon.org/
So, come on - save the date: Sunday 4th December 2016. Entry until September is a bargain price of just US$66 and your entry fee goes to a very good cause.
Who's with me?? Do YOU want to run through Angkor Wat???
This could be us in December. just saying...:
Actually, there is THIS event later in the year, and whilst, no it's not in Vietnam, it's in Cambodia (just next door) and how amazing would it be?! A half marathon through the stunning and wondrous Angkor Wat?! Plus it's for a great cause and raises relief for victims of antipersonnel mines in Cambodia (and is attended by many landmine victims each year) including funds for prosthetic limbs and social reintegration programs, amongst other things. Check it out: http://www.angkormarathon.org/
So, come on - save the date: Sunday 4th December 2016. Entry until September is a bargain price of just US$66 and your entry fee goes to a very good cause.
Who's with me?? Do YOU want to run through Angkor Wat???
This could be us in December. just saying...:
Have a wonderful week everyone. I'm off to change hotels and seek out yet more deliciously strong Vietnamese coffee, before preparing for my first day at a new job tomorrow morning, eek... There is also a game of tennis on the cards (cross-training, right?) although this potential tennis was proposed at about 2:30 this morning over some beers, so I'm not sure how fictional it may or may not be. Oh well, no doubt there'll always be pho instead. Can't get enough of this stuff.... Sending lots of long distance love back home to you all. Chao!! xxxx
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