As the weather warmed in Australia, Nepal chilled. The mountains frosted with snow at ever decreasing altitudes. Eventually, the searches were suspended. It was too cold for the Asics Gel lyte 3 Womens dogs, visibility too poor for flyovers. My life moved sideways, as life does. I travelled to South America over Christmas and spent a month in the mountains of Patagonia. Every day, I thought this must be like it was wherever Matt was. I came home,Adidas NMD Mujer uni started up again, work rolled on, and I ran.
In early 2014, I signed up for my first proper race: the Gold Coast Nike Air Max 270 Damen 10km. An 18-week training programme lay ahead of me and I tore into it. Running had begun to give me order where there wasn’t any. None of it was easy, but it felt wholesome, like eating your crusts. It felt earned.Wary of putting too much Nike Air Presto Femme into the end point, I told myself: “It’s the sides of the mountain ... where things grow.”
In mid-May, my programme reached its peak with a “festival of running” that happens about five weeks out from race day, and is typically the biggest week of Adidas Superstar Womens White the build-up, in terms of both mileage and intensity. For me, it would be the first time I’d run more than 100km in seven days. Things started out well; my time in the mountains had given me a base, and the following few months of my programme had Nike Air Presto Womenssharpened me. I was running better than ever, and was enjoying it like never before. Then one morning before training, Nike Air Max 95 Mujer as had happened the previous November, I woke to news of Matt.