6/1/2014

It's June 1st. Dookie 5k day. We got up early and set up for the run. It was bucketing down rain as we set up the course. We had some issues with identifying actual roads by google maps so we changed the route this morning. We drove around and quickly jumped out of the car to set up cones and caution tape marking the course. I got a few calls this morning about parents concerned about their children in the rain, which meant that most of out participants didn't run. It was actually so rainy that ducks started swimming in the puddles.

 We started to get nervous but our first participant showed up and we were thrilled. We ended up with 6 runners significantly less than the 40 we had expected but with the rain it was a good turnout. All 4 of us ran with the group, it was very fun. Fun+run=fun run! Success! And everyone got a prize! After the race finished we had an hour of clean up and we headed back. I biked back to Shepparton which is somewhere between 26 and 32km from Dookie. Google maps disagreed with the road signs. I got to Shepparton 2.5 hours before my train back so I went out for coffee and French fries with my friend Tuba whose at home in Shepparton for study week. 

The train ride back was the perfect time to listen to today's new welcome to nightvale, my new favourite podcast. 

Back in Melbourne I had an exam to take and so much study to catch up on after my weekend of event organisation.