earthquake

I haven't been able to write for the last couple of days because there was so much stuff going on… On Saturday we got woken up by an earthquake at 4:35 am (7,1 on the Richter scale). It was terrifying and of course we couldn't go back to sleep afterwards. The walls were shaking as if we were in a cardboard box and our bed was about to collapse. As soon as it was a bit brighter outside, we started putting back all the stuff that fell down. Fortunately our place is quite new so we didn't have any damage. My boyfriend's dad was supposed to fly in in the afternoon as well, but the airport was closed so we had a bit of organising and researching to do. Training on that day was cancelled, so I ended up spending an hour on the wind trainer, being shaken by aftershocks. On Sunday I did some off-skate and we went to the airport in the evening to finally pick up my boyfriend's dad. We also went to the supermarket to do some shopping and we hoped we'd find some water as well as we're not allowed to drink the tap water, but all the water was sold out.

On Monday the sun was shining, it was 18 degrees at 9am and apart from some buildings which were quite destroyed and the central city which was closed off, nothing really reminded of the earthquake. I headed out for a 40min interval run and got really hot real quick. I did 1 x 200m and 4 x 400m before heading back home again. My boyfriend didn't have to go to work because of the earthquake so he was home with me and I was soooo glad.
In the evening we went to club training and did 9 x 400m which were easier than usual. Last week I couldn't even keep up with Mark and had to do the intervals by myself, but this week everything was fine again and I had no porblems at all to keep up with him. I was pretty glad cos otherwise I would have been pretty worried. That night we had two pretty good aftershocks again and until now I haven't had a night where I could sleep through.

Tuesday I only did some exercises for 1 hour 25 and went shopping with my boyfriend. I also helped him to pack because he had to leave this morning to go back to work up Mount Cook.

Last night we had 12 aftershocks in total, only one woke me up though. As soon as my boyfriend left this morning, there was another huge one and even a few things fell off the shelves again. It was "only" 5,1 on the Richter scale, but it was only 6km deep and closer from Christchurch than the other ones, that's why it felt so big. It really freaked me out and I am so over these aftershocks so I called my boyfriend telling him to come back home. Stupid, I know, he was on his way to Mount Cook and he just told me he'll see what he can do. We had a couple of other smaller aftershocks – freaked me out even more.
I still did my Power-Workout though, trying to keep myself occupied. My legs were still pretty shaky which made it difficult to jump around. I was planning on going to the mall later, but heard that they closed it because of the aftershock. I then texted my friend to ask her if I can stay at her place for the night. I was planning on going there later this afternoon, but then my boyfriend called me from Mount Cook, telling me they're coming home. Thank god! I asked why and he said all his work mates got calls from their girlfriends, wives who are all scared after this morning's aftershock. I'm now waiting until 4:30 pm to see if it will still be dry and I can go to club training or if I have to go on the wind trainer.