The One Where We Run

The fine looking team in our hats!
It ended up being so hot and gruelling that we decided to ditch the hats... but the beer and hot chips at the end were fantastic!!!

I ran the third leg of the Queen Charlotte Relay, 8.1k and I did it in 50 or so minutes. Not bad for four training runs beforehand! The other legs were coastal but mine turned inland and went across flat dairy country. I hit the wall about 6 k and I didn't know where I was or how far I'd run and how far I had to go and imagined myself stuck in kind of a NZ Purgatory... flat endless roads surrounded by green pastures filled with cows. Ugh. Fortunately I came to the end and I was able to hand my baton on.

The one where the Stepford Wife wears Hammer Pants

A repeat of a hat for Friday... but I don't think anyone noticed as they were too busy staring at my "HAMMER" pants...

They're quite comfortable actually... I think Stanley Kirk Burrell (that's MC Hammer's real name) was onto something!

On a lady - MC Hammer pants, or Harem Pants as they are know this season, falls under the catergory "Man Repeller" clothing. That's the title of a blog website I've discovered which goes along the theory that while High Fashion clothing and trends may be very much in vogue and expensive, men don't generally find it attractive at all. The woman who writes it is very funny... http://www.manrepeller.com/

Anyhoo... wish me luck for my run today!

better late than never...

I was in a rush last night so got home, got changed went for a run, came back home, had a shower and realised mid-lather I hadn't taken my hat photo... so this morning I got dressed TWICE... and did both photographs this morning...

I had an interview on More FM this morning too, to promote my hat wearing cause too... roll on the donations!

Hats don't do so well in the wind (neither do skirts)

First of all apologies to all in the centre on Blenheim today, near the forum at 1:36pm this afternoon... I'm sorry for showing you my underwear. It wasn't on purpose. A gust of wind blew up my skirt and almost took my hat off as well, and... I only have two hands and one of them was holding a file of papers!

Thanks to workmates for kind sponsorship and donations - much appreciated!!!! Anyone else out there in cyberland want to sponsor me? PM me on facebook to set it up!

Trousers tomorrow... and a turban perhaps?

A good Stepford Wife --- has Community Spirit

It's Hat Week - a week to put on your hats and raise money and awareness for Alzheimers Marlborough. Having had a family member experience dementia in their later years, and a hat collection gathering dust, I thought this the perfect opportunity for me to get behind this cause!

Basically I wear a hat everyday this week and ask friends and family to support me with a cash donation or sponsorship

So will you?

Please sponsor me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .. a little or a lot... and in return I will post my hat of the day here just to prove I'm doing it!

Thanks in advance!