Amazing runners at Auckland Therapeutic Massage

Every once in a while I actually have to stop and appreciate how totally amazing a lot of my customers actually are! I catch up every week for their regular massage to chat about the goals, big and small, to massage out the kinks and try to help along the recovery, so that they can carry on one step at a time towards the most amazing goals. And all of that makes me feel just a little bit part of the journey and so proud when ‘we’ get there 🙂 This week for example I had the incredible pleasure to catch up with Alan recently completing his first Tarawera Ultra Marathon http://www.taraweraultra.co.nz/, the amazing 100km marathon , which even when it had to be cut down to 75 km thanks to Cyclone Lucie, was such an amazing race to hear about ! And get this – Alan had not a single blister on his feet ! Not one ! He told me his secret are injinji socks, so I promptly had to go and order some :  http://www.injinji.co.nz/ ! Anything that keeps those blisters at bay… So Alan got to the end , well done ! Wonder if he took in another couple of customers of mine on site that day in the sodding rain and wind . Carlene and Gudrun, supporters extraordinaire (and themselves no strangers to Ultra running , see http://www.thetaniwha.co.nz/ ) playing the Ukelele (yes, you heard right – ‘Run Tarawera, you’re here to Run Tarawera ‘ just goes so brilliantly with Guantanamero!!!) on the edge of the lake to support not only their friend Vivienne, but all the runners, who came past them. The singing had in fact been started by a little ditty composed by Carlene to encourage Vivienne along the week before and as is so often the case these days , went viral on You tube  http://youtu.be/dY3uZKnOtgg So a good week all round for massages, running and singing , what more could we want!? Shout out to all the incredible finishers, our Garthy of course being one of them , you know who you are 🙂