Saturday Tour de Tuggeranong

Today:
Distance: 28.6 km
Time: 2 hrs 53 mins 54 secs
Rate: 6' 04" per km
Altitude gain/loss: 435 metres
Weather: cloudy, cool, temp 12-16 degrees, humidity 67%, wind easterly at 10 kmph
Week: 89.9 km
March: 277.75 km
Year: 1163.2 km

An early start to a run from home. Last Saturday, I made arrangements to meet softshoeshuffle for today's run as most other Canberrans had left town for the coast for the Easter break.
Not needing to travel to get in lots of off road kms, I started out from home and ran over to the track behind Theodore where we had arranged to meet near the sub station. We then continued in a huge loop that took us on dirt tracks behind the suburbs of Chisholm, Gilmore, over Isabella Dr to MacArthur, moved a few kangaroos out of the way on the open nature park above Long Gully Road before crossing into Farrer.
Around the back of the houses to the tracks of the Tour de Mountain course going up the hill after Yamba Dr to the Wanniassa Hills nature park. Exiting behind Fadden, down through Gowrie, we parted at Johnson Dr / Ashley Dr roundabout when I had just a km to home.
We tried to compare today with last Saturday's run at the Cotter. Today was much slower, I think partly to the rougher tracks in many parts, grassy and rocky where the Cotter tracks are mostly good, smooth gravel. I did think there would be as much elevation gain/loss as last week, but today only 435 metres compared with 600 metres last week. Much of that last week was in the first 2 kms.
A very good day out there, weather conditions were very good for running, cool and cloudy. Legs started to feel the pinch late in the run, but then I am just starting back, not a few weeks away from a road marathon.