Stromlo, Dairy Farmers and Black Mountain
Today:
Distance: 29.6 km
Time: 2hrs 59 mins 22 secs
Rate: 6' 03" per km
Weather: cloudy, temp 12 - 22 degrees, humidity 25%, wind calm to start then up to 25 kmph
Week & Oct:
Distance: 95.1 km
Running days: 5/7
Ave: 19.02 km per run day
Year:
Distance: 3415.8 km
Running days: 185/ 279
Ave: 18.46 km per run day
Received a phone call on Friday night asking what run I had planned for Sat morning with only two weeks to BC. Arranged time and place and started out from Deek's Forest Park around 8: 30 am. We are both planning to run BC so the idea behind the run was to get in some downhill at pace, easy on the up and get used to the weather conditions that may be expected. BC starts at the same time high in the mountains, and later after Bull's Head the terrain is open and exposed. It may well be very warm on the day so a bit of open country with little shade was needed.
However, the predicted showers for this afternoon turned out to be just a few spots lasting a minute. So little benefit. It was good running conditions until the wind picked up and fortunately not the heat, low humidity meant little sweat.
We ran a basic out and back course from the old toilet block, down to Clo's crossing, up the central 6 course to the power line, over to the top of Dairy Farmer's hill, down thru the arboretum, down the gun barrel to the cork plantation. Road works continue at Glenlock interchange where we went under the road to the steep uphill track at the back of Black Mountain. Managed to run all the way to the top passing Geoff Sims pushing his bike near the top. I thought mountain bikes were meant to be ridden on mountains, maybe not enough gears or maybe not a big enough engine to move the bike. Anyway, all is forgiven as this top section is really steep and damn hard work.
Back down the same way only a short detour down the Black Mtn run up course to return to the same track we ran up. A lot easier going down only needing to be careful not to trip on the loose gravel. Back the same way over to Dairy farmer's hill and thru the Stromlo ( small trees, no forest yet) back to the start. I had tried to calculate a distance before starting expecting the trip to be around 34 km but the distance to the top of Dairy Farmers from our start is just 6.25km so we came up a little short of the 35 km I was expecting.
However, hills and wind make up for distance, so just under 30km for the day was quite OK at an acceptable pace for the course and more difficult than the first half of BC.
After a short rest at the finish, drove to Pine Is to stand in the water. Legs are fine now, just a little tired.
Rest day tomorrow on the couch watching the cars race around Mt Panorama, go the Fords.
Distance: 29.6 km
Time: 2hrs 59 mins 22 secs
Rate: 6' 03" per km
Weather: cloudy, temp 12 - 22 degrees, humidity 25%, wind calm to start then up to 25 kmph
Week & Oct:
Distance: 95.1 km
Running days: 5/7
Ave: 19.02 km per run day
Year:
Distance: 3415.8 km
Running days: 185/ 279
Ave: 18.46 km per run day
Received a phone call on Friday night asking what run I had planned for Sat morning with only two weeks to BC. Arranged time and place and started out from Deek's Forest Park around 8: 30 am. We are both planning to run BC so the idea behind the run was to get in some downhill at pace, easy on the up and get used to the weather conditions that may be expected. BC starts at the same time high in the mountains, and later after Bull's Head the terrain is open and exposed. It may well be very warm on the day so a bit of open country with little shade was needed.
However, the predicted showers for this afternoon turned out to be just a few spots lasting a minute. So little benefit. It was good running conditions until the wind picked up and fortunately not the heat, low humidity meant little sweat.
We ran a basic out and back course from the old toilet block, down to Clo's crossing, up the central 6 course to the power line, over to the top of Dairy Farmer's hill, down thru the arboretum, down the gun barrel to the cork plantation. Road works continue at Glenlock interchange where we went under the road to the steep uphill track at the back of Black Mountain. Managed to run all the way to the top passing Geoff Sims pushing his bike near the top. I thought mountain bikes were meant to be ridden on mountains, maybe not enough gears or maybe not a big enough engine to move the bike. Anyway, all is forgiven as this top section is really steep and damn hard work.
Back down the same way only a short detour down the Black Mtn run up course to return to the same track we ran up. A lot easier going down only needing to be careful not to trip on the loose gravel. Back the same way over to Dairy farmer's hill and thru the Stromlo ( small trees, no forest yet) back to the start. I had tried to calculate a distance before starting expecting the trip to be around 34 km but the distance to the top of Dairy Farmers from our start is just 6.25km so we came up a little short of the 35 km I was expecting.
However, hills and wind make up for distance, so just under 30km for the day was quite OK at an acceptable pace for the course and more difficult than the first half of BC.
After a short rest at the finish, drove to Pine Is to stand in the water. Legs are fine now, just a little tired.
Rest day tomorrow on the couch watching the cars race around Mt Panorama, go the Fords.
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