running – Made by Mikal

Scared Weird Frozen Guy

The true life story of a kid from Bribie Island (I’ve been there!) running a marathon in Antartica, via being a touring musical comedian, doing things like this:

This book is an interesting and light read, and came kindly recommended by Michael Carden, who pretty much insisted I take the book off him at a cafe. I don’t regret reading it and would recommend it to people looking for a light autobiography for a rainy (and perhaps cold) evening or two.

Oh, and the Scared Weird Little Guys of course are responsible for this gem…

This book is highly recommended and now I really want to go for a run.

Title: Scared Weird Frozen Guy
Author: Rusty Berther
Genre: Comedians
Release Date: 2012
Pages: 325

After 20 incredible years as part of a musical comedy duo, Scared Weird Little Guy, Rusty Berther found himself running a marathon in Antarctica. What drove him to this? In this hilarious and honest account of his life as a Scared Weird Little Guy, and his long journey attempting an extreme physical and mental challenge at the bottom of the world, Rusty examines where he started from, and where he just might be going to.

On running

I’ve been running for a little while now, but I don’t mention it here much. I think I mostly don’t mention it because I normally just post photos here, and I don’t tend to stop and take happy snaps on my runs. The runs started off pretty modest — initially I struggled with shin splints after more than a couple of minutes. I’ve worked through that and a couple of injuries along the way and am consistently doing 5km runs now.

That said, my longest runs have been in the last week when I did a 7.5km and an 8.1km. I’m building up to 10km, mostly because its a nice round number. I think ultimately trail running might be the thing for me, I get quite bored running around suburbs over and over again.

Its interesting that I come from an aggressively unsporting family, but yet all of my middle aged siblings and I have started running in the last year or two. Its a mid-life crisis thing perhaps?

First jog, and a walk to Los Altos

Today was a busy day, not only did I foolishly go for a jog 5 minutes after sunrise…

…but then I went for a walk with James in the afternoon as well.

Let’s just say my fitbit is very impressed with me.