Friday Thoughts #15

We have arrived in Noosa, not without a little bit of stress. Driving into the Gold Coast late Wednesday afternoon, the engine warning light on the car came on, and it was driving a bit rough. We devised a few different plans to handle it before settling on the best option. We postponed the client visit scheduled for Thursday morning and set off from Main Beach, hoping the car would make it 80km to the Brisbane dealership. Once there, we waited while they scanned the car to check the error, which pointed to a problem with the fuel pump. They were fully booked until next week to look at it further, but we had organised for Hubby’s business partner (also his brother-in-law), who was flying up to meet us to get a bigger hire car and come and pick us up from the dealership. Once he arrived, we transferred our luggage to his car and set off for the next client meeting that morning. They dropped me at the Burnside Tavern round the corner, and I spent the time working until they were finished. Then we headed back up the highway to the Sunshine Coast airport to pick up my sister-in-law. Luckily our friend had made it up from Yamba and met us there to take some of our luggage and Hubby with her so we could fit my sister-in-law and her luggage in the car. We’ll find out next week whether the car will be an easy fix. Luckily we can get by here without a car.

I’ll fill you in on all the fun things we did driving up in subsequent posts.

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This morning I picked up my coffee from last year’s favourite, and it’s still good. Our apartment is directly across the road, so pretty convenient.

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Some links:

Related to my walk-run every street: A single map is enough

And to my walk/run every street, Tenderheart Challenge and visit every National Park in Victoria Project: Every Single [X]

Bringing people together by hosting a 2hr Cocktail Party Entertaining ideas for hosting gatherings that bring people together.

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Today I did my 2K pre-race day leg loosening run, breakfast, coffee, shower and a trip to the shops to pick up a public transport pass. Next, I’ll finish my work for the week, grab some lunch, and then head down to the beach. We are booked to pick up our bibs for tomorrow’s race at 3 pm. Tomorrow I’ll treat it like a long run with a goal pace last 5km if I can. My six weeks of interrupted training means I’m not quite at PB fitness, so this becomes a training run on my way to hopefully a PB at Gold Coast in five weeks’ time. It’s a good opportunity to get my nutrition, hydration and warm-up sorted as well.

How’s your week been? Do you have a “do every single [X]” project?