Cooks Love...

So, I know I am a week late but unfortunately with study, work, training and family, there isn't a whole lot of spare time these days!  Then, when there is, I just want to let my brain go to mush (like it isn't all day anyway!)Last weekend, was Cooks Tour.  If you saw my previous post, I was aiming to do the 50k but due to a sore knee and lack of quality training since Buffalo, I decided to do the 30k with Tegan.  Lucky I did too!  I had the WORST head cold and if I would have done the 50k and pushed myself, it wouldn't have ended well!Anyway, the 30k it was and I was pumped!  After a really nice time on the Goldy and Brissy catching up with a couple of Tegs best childhood friends, we headed to the start line together.  After the usual chats with friends, yahooing and talking rott (thats me!), we were off.  Tegs and I started off with Daniel who I did the 50miler there with a number of years ago.  It was really nice to meet up with him again and have a chat.  We formed a nice friendship during that run and have kept in touch since.  After a while we parted ways and Tegs and I kept on keeping on.She started really strongly and we were keeping a good pace.  We hit the famous Powerlines which she hasn't done before and subsequently, gave her legs a nice hurry up!  We then head out to Checkpoint 8 and began the Eastern loop there.  It was changed a little and included a cool single track section, but still had a nice solid climb in there which Tegan 'loved'!  Ha!  Some good hiking!  After this, the majority of climbing was out of the way and it was time to head toward home.We got to about 23k and Tegs hit the wall....and she got grumpy!  I tried to gently poke her, sorry encourage her along as quickly as she could move but she was more than happy walking for a bit!  I got a few nasty words and as predicted, after a few k's she came good!  She rallied and we ran it in together smiling and still married!  3hrs 23min and change.I am super proud of her and even though she wasn't able to do a lot of training due to poor weather and sickness, she did really well!  It was a really fun thing to do together and it was our first joint event!  What a legend!Since the race I have continued to train strongly and whilst my knee is still pretty sore at times, it isn't getting any worse so onward and upward.  I do have my Run for the Sun title to live up to too!  I hope to blog a little more over the next little while due to uni holidays coming up.  I hope this finds y'all ripper and I hope to catch you soon!  Namaste.