An Aussie running across France

Wednesday and certainly feel I’m in countdown mode now, this time next week I guess I’ll be having a sleepless night, contemplating the trip ahead (or dreaming about missing a flight somewhere !!).
It all begins with a 2:40 PM flight from Tulla on the 3rd and due to the magic of time differences get to Nice just after midday the next day pretty much exactly 24 Hours in the sky as well as 5 hours in stopovers.
Not sure what to expect then, jetlag or exhaustion or just pure excitement of being somewhere so very different. Just the thought of summer and being away from the cold of winter sounds great at present.
Hope to get back up on the feet pretty soon though as I won’t acclimatise in my hotel room but I reckon taking it gently for the next couple of days will be the way to go and certainly I can‘t imagine staying away from the beach (even if not sandy Gold Coast type ones !!).
A big Rolling Stones fan get together in town on the 7th complete with cover band
“Stones Donkeys” should get me in the mood for the next part of the trip (and take my mind off the run ahead), with the concert on the 8th (now to get over those two events injury free :-) ). Another couple of days in a Stones induced natural high and then off to Paris in the late afternoon.
Would like to think I can get to see a fair bit of the city in the days I’m there before heading off to Roscoff by train on the afternoon of the 14th for the race start on the 16th .
May be pretty vague about what I do before the 16th but for the next 18 days will know where I’m headed, with the race finish 1,150 KM’s later in Gruissan-Plage. I’d like to think by then I’ll have done something worth really celebrating (no outrageous predictions from me at this point in time thanks !).
After all that, I’d hope I’ve still got a marathon left in me as it’s off to Bordeaux (mmm now that sounds like wine to me) , and join a tour for the Marathon Du Medoc at Pauillac the next Saturday. A few more days in Bordeaux and then off to Paris for a couple of days before heading back to Australia on the 14th, certainly the time difference will work against me on the way back getting to Tullamarine early on the Saturday morning (now if only the “Mighty Tigers” can make it to an AFL semi final that Saturday night).
Now that I’ve written this down I’ll know where I’m meant to be !! , but first a little trip to Coonabarabran this weekend for the Warrumbungles 50K Ultra.