vomitting for fun & stature

Well everyone... after my performance... read in to this the lack of... while competing in the Aucland Marathon it maybe time to reconsider my devotion to the sport of self flagerlation by way of moving the feet often over long distance... this being the morning after however the pain is rapidly fading into the realm of the warm glow of accomplishment... for those of you that know Auckland the run takes from Devonport across the Harbour bridge.. this being the main reason for attempting the run... then through the central business district out around the bays to the turn around point back along the bays and through the business district to the finish... things were looking bad for me at the 28 k mark.. and by the 35 k mark I was had it and had come to the conclusion that I was not going to finish... by this time I had had three sit downs and was on my third and what I thought was my last total lay down head on hands totaly sprawled out on the grass.... sort of moaning and feeling sorry for myself... a combination of exhaustion, heatstroke and really just feeling sick had put an end to me.. my last grass flop was at about the 39 k mark which is really dpressing because it's only 3 k to the finish... however I was rescued by the ambulance people and after vomiting up all the water I had drunk during the run... I started to feel alot better and off I went again ... in fact I ran the last two K's to the finish... this was a hell of a suprise to me considering how sick I was before that I could not even stand up let alone walk... I think I was about third to last.. but the welcome you get as you stumble across the finish is amazing most distance runners understand what you go through and how hard you have to fight sometimes to make the finish...

just as an amusement for you... I'm running a virus scan using avg and microsoft spyware.. I regret to inform you that my comp has HIV bordering on full blown AIDs... something called Adware Generic BVB.. it does not sound too bad... but it seems to be in everything... When you have read this email I suggest you burn your computer...

best wishes to you all... uppie