Ashlyn's realization that there are only 7 weeks left

The calendar on my computer now shows the Two Oceans Marathon without me turning to the next page. I’m excited but also scared because I haven’t been training like I should have. In the beginning of April, I’ll be running my first international half marathon and my sixth half marathon overall. I’ve only trained to 7 out of my 13.1 miles. There are only seven weeks left in the program and I have no idea how I’m going to fit everything in.

Enough on what’s coming up, let’s focus on what I have done this weekend. On Saturday I hiked to the top of Table Mountain. Table Mountain is a major landmark in Cape Town and one of the natural wonders of nature. A group of 7 of us started the trek at KirstenboschGardens. At first the hike was through a beautiful forest with a canopy of trees above us. There were multiple ladders that we had to climb up. This portion of the hike was followed by a lot of brush. Overall the trek took us almost five hours. At the end we were pleasantly surprised to find a café at the top! I thought someone was kidding when they said there was a café at the top because it must be so hard bringing all the food up. The view from the top of the mountain was amazing and worth every second of the climb. The group took a cable car down the mountain because there was no way we were going to hike down also!

On Sunday, Jill and I started our day early and went to an internet café. After visiting an internet café, Jill and I went to a new restaurant in a section of the city called Observatory. The café had great french toast and coffee. The two of us then traveled home and met up with some other people. A small group of us then took a cab to a barbeque place called Mzoli’s.  Mzoli’s was filled to the brim with people dancing. First, we waited in line to buy some meat and then we waited for the food to be cooked. A few friends from the Human Rights Weekend met us there and I was so glad to be reunited (even though we had only been apart for a week). We spent hours eating and dancing, with old and new friends.