Group Run!

After music teaching today, Winston and his mum were going to have lunch at McDonald's, and asked if we would like to come along.

I don't know how many times I've had fast food this week now! I really should ban myself from fast food for a while.

I was telling Grace about how Aonghas and I went for a run the day before, and we came up with an idea to go for a run later tonight. I volunteered my brothers, despite them not being home (but they need the exercise anyway!). I then asked around to see if anyone else would be keen.

Eventually, we got a group together and all met up outside Trusts Stadium later that evening! A few of the guys had just had dinner, so they were going to take it easy.

We decided to jog along the track which runs alongside the river, goes up to the motorway, up to Central Park Drive and then back to Trusts Stadium.

Aonghas and I used this app, Endomondo to track our run and compare it to the day before. Surprisingly, tonight's run felt a lot easier! Admittedly, we all took a little break at the halfway mark, but by the end of the run I still had a little bit left in the tank to crank up the speed!

The run was a lot shorter than we had anticipated, as we finished in about 20ish minutes, so we got Wei to teach us some tai chi! That is some hard work!

It was starting to get dark, so we decided to cross the road to church for a drink. Some of our mums were there for a group meeting anyway.

We ended up sitting around talking before they had to close the church!

We might end up making this a more regular thing. Round the Bays, here we come!

(http://youtu.be/X95CEwlRJaM)

Early Olympic Action

The Olympics Opening Ceremony may be a couple days away but I thought I'd get in on the Olympics action early by getting up very early this morning to watch the NZ Football Ferns (women's football team) take on Great Britain.

I only woke up for the last twenty minutes when it was still nil-all. I left the room for a second only to return to Great Britain leading by one point! 

With one minute remaining, it's not looking like a good start to the Olympics! This has been a good experience for me though, being the first time I've actually watched women's football on TV! Then again, how often do we get any sport on free-to-air TV these days?

The UV's Shine Their Way Through!

Our cousins are the new champions...of the Massey Leisure Centre Mixed Basketball Team league, or whatever it's called! 

Tonight was the grand final and since they forgot to invite us to join the team (aheemm!) or watch any of their other games, they finally invited us to come watch their final game, which happened to be the final!

They were all in their fluorescent singlets which was fitting, considering they named their team the U.V's (Ultraviolets)!

The game got off well, with the UV's running out to a huge lead, thanks to their 'import' Jack, one of our cousins' friends who joined the team just for that game. He scored the majority of their points and was quite good with the ball. 

By half-time the UV's were comfortably in the lead. 

The second half was different, with the opposition slowly catching up to within eight points (that's still quite a big gap but considering they were leading for more than ten points for most of the game...) The UV's pulled away in the last few minutes though and eventually won the final comfortably!

Congratulations you guys! It was good catching up with the family this evening over a game of basketball! 

(http://youtu.be/ijikm9mH1Us)