Land of the Kiwis A runner in New Zealand

Day 4: Cheers!

I woke up today to sunlight in my window, quickly rolled out of bed and looked out. The view was incredible!

We have a perfect view of Hataitai, which is the western suburb of Wellington (check out the album for a view from the other side of the house, Wellington proper). I grabbed a PB&J, some tea and launched out the door into the beautiful 70degree heat. This is living. Cary and I stretched a few minutes and headed out for Wellington Harriers Headquarters. Once there, we met a dozen runners and I hit the toilet (bathroom in kiwi). Bad move, cause when I came out, the crew was gone. I talked for 5 minutes with the head dude (not really a coach) of the club, Graham Somebody. He's been everywhere so it was a really interesting convo. Cary eventually came back like a good mate and apologized way too much for leaving me behind. It was fault really.

However, turned out to be a blessing because the team ran into the city and Cary and I had decided anyways that we wanted to head out around Island Bay (One spectacular thing about living at the top of Mt Vic is that we can literally plan our runs from the window!)

I'll let the pictures tell the story of the run. We ran 90min, 14miles RE. Stretched a bit afterward, showered, and made way toward downtown.

The rest of the day was spent with Cary and his GF, Jane Andrews:

• Touring the waterfront
• Getting gellatos from Gelicious
• Taking a cable-car to the botanical gardens
• Grabbing a brew (I had Mac's Black) and an amazing Grubfish dinner at The Loaded Hog
• Buying a few clothes I desperately needed (still need some good jeans).

All that for under 6 miles of walking. I love this city, and our location is superb!

Got some technology going that night. Tomorrow: Errands.