Rainy Saturday
Today:
Distance: 21.85 km
Time: 2 hrs 1 min 26 secs
Rate: 5' 33" per km
Weather: cloudy, temp 18 degrees, humidity 90%, light drizzle, light SE wind
Week: 86.3 km
December: 21.85 km
Year: 4040.1 km
I waited for some drink station provisions to be delivered to home before I left after midday. The morning had been cloudy but dry, of course as soon as I was ready to go, it started to rain. Not heavy but a light drizzle that persisted throughout the run. It is still raining now some 6 hours later. Canberra had 115 mls of rain in November, that was the most in a November in 7 years. Mostly we have only been getting double that in a whole year.
The cool humid conditions made running feel a bit average, long grass in places a bit of a nuisance.
Today's long circuit started out going down Ashley Dr to Isabella Dr, up past Fadden Pines to the tracks around the outside of MacArthur, over the open nature park to Long Gully Road. Crossing into Isaacs then under Yamba Dr into Farrer to follow the tracks used for the old vet's handicap but in reverse to the start line near the underpass leading onto Wanniassa Hills.
Conditions were not looking good with the sky very black in the south and east, the weather coming in from the coast. A final quick trip down through Gowrie back home before the weather turned really nasty.
Just longer than yesterday and it should have been easier with no Mt Taylor to climb, but I think the long uphills tend to make for a slow trip than a short steep climb.
By the way, a notice on Mt Taylor for any one capable, there is a champagne early morning ( 6am) gathering on just before Christmas, BYO. Check out the signs on the gate at the entrances to the nature park, plenty of people regularly climb the mountain.
The Deep Space Mountain marathon and shorter races are on tomorrow starting at the old Honeysuckle tracking station very early in the morning. With all the rain we have received recently, the tracks will be slippery and now impossible to drive the Pajero to the top of Mt Tennent with the drink station gear, looks like a long walk to the top with a heavy load on the shoulders. Such is life.
Distance: 21.85 km
Time: 2 hrs 1 min 26 secs
Rate: 5' 33" per km
Weather: cloudy, temp 18 degrees, humidity 90%, light drizzle, light SE wind
Week: 86.3 km
December: 21.85 km
Year: 4040.1 km
I waited for some drink station provisions to be delivered to home before I left after midday. The morning had been cloudy but dry, of course as soon as I was ready to go, it started to rain. Not heavy but a light drizzle that persisted throughout the run. It is still raining now some 6 hours later. Canberra had 115 mls of rain in November, that was the most in a November in 7 years. Mostly we have only been getting double that in a whole year.
The cool humid conditions made running feel a bit average, long grass in places a bit of a nuisance.
Today's long circuit started out going down Ashley Dr to Isabella Dr, up past Fadden Pines to the tracks around the outside of MacArthur, over the open nature park to Long Gully Road. Crossing into Isaacs then under Yamba Dr into Farrer to follow the tracks used for the old vet's handicap but in reverse to the start line near the underpass leading onto Wanniassa Hills.
Conditions were not looking good with the sky very black in the south and east, the weather coming in from the coast. A final quick trip down through Gowrie back home before the weather turned really nasty.
Just longer than yesterday and it should have been easier with no Mt Taylor to climb, but I think the long uphills tend to make for a slow trip than a short steep climb.
By the way, a notice on Mt Taylor for any one capable, there is a champagne early morning ( 6am) gathering on just before Christmas, BYO. Check out the signs on the gate at the entrances to the nature park, plenty of people regularly climb the mountain.
The Deep Space Mountain marathon and shorter races are on tomorrow starting at the old Honeysuckle tracking station very early in the morning. With all the rain we have received recently, the tracks will be slippery and now impossible to drive the Pajero to the top of Mt Tennent with the drink station gear, looks like a long walk to the top with a heavy load on the shoulders. Such is life.
posted by Two Fruits at
5:41 PM
1 Comments:
It'll probably be raining and they won't need a drink station!
That was a good story from yesterday's run.
By the way, Zel 'won' the race around Mt Ainslie this morning, with Debbie a close second... and not a drop of rain.
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Ewen, At
December 1, 2007 at 9:47 PM
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