Pat,

I totally enjoyed being the mc at the Noosa Journal Half Marathon, Noosa 10k and Wide Bay 5k on Sunday. Controlling the three events via the mic, at times, resulted in a ‘slight’ strain in my voice however I eventually found where my voice limitations fell.

A member of my Brisbane running group, Jodie Willett was first lady across the line in the Half Marathon. Congratulations Jodie and it is great to see you being rewarded for persevering during testing times of late, injury wise that is.

My partner Susan asked me (yes, she is talking to me after the birthday thing) if it was a huge thrill for me to have a member of my group win the race. I advised Susan that even though I am happy for Jodie that I was equally thrilled when another member of the group, Dan Kelly, surpassed his goal and ran under 2hrs 10min in the same event.

As I stood at the finish line I witnessed hundreds of runners who were emphatic with their performance. I love being involved with events such as Noosa because everyone in the community has the opportunity to walk away feeling just as proud as our own Jodie.

Claire Bellenger ran a 6min pb in the Half and following is an extract from an email Claire sent me earlier today.

I was sitting at the airport last night sore and tired. Then the flight was delayed ANOTHER hour. Everyone was wondering what I was sitting there grinning for, how would they understand that it is because I was a runner with a new PB and nothing else really mattered.

If you ran on Sunday I hope you are experiencing a similar thrill to Claires.

Cheers

Pat