Mt Tennent Double
Today:
Purpose: long mountain run
Distance: 30.00 km
Time: 4 hrs 17 mins 33 secs
Rate: 8' 35" per km
Altitude gain: 1548 metres
Recovery: 10 minutes in river at Tharwa bridge
Weather: sunny, temp range 18-28 degrees, humidity 60%-40%, wind mostly calm, then NW 10 kmph
Week: 92.95 km, Dec: 318.6 km, Year: 5163.5 km
Before I forget, we saw a nice red belly black snake on our first return from the top of the mountain about 200 metres down. Not there when we went up, so a sneaky snake out for a look around. Good size, may be just over a metre long.
Company of Softshoe this morning with an early start, for us, at 6:30 am due to the anticipated warm sunny day. Not many about on the mountain today probably due to Christmas shopping.
The humid weather certainly made it difficult combined with no breeze for most of the morning.
Just outside usual time for first trip to the top on the walking track at 77 minutes, so happy with that.
A good run down the fire trail to the gate at Apollo Road where the surface is in good condition and a minute under 2 hours to get there, so right on pace.
The climb back up was hard work with a bit more walking, although good solid walking, than I would have liked. Again just outside usual time for that section, I still can't get near 60 minutes for the 6.8 kms.
The most dangerous and some may say most exciting part is the final down on the walking track which is rocky & technical trail. Can be fun or can be disaster. Much care is needed, so time is slow.
Arrived back at the start at the Namadgi Visitor's Centre with 27.8 kms for distance and 4 hrs 2 minutes for time. While waiting for Softshoe to arrive, ran back to meet him and bought the day's distance up to 30 kms.
Best time for the double for a while, so I hope that has set up the first section of B2H and I won't have to worry about the cut off.
Stopped at the river at Tharwa bridge for 10 minutes in the water just to refresh. No much water in there now, and it is getting too warm for good recovery, just nice.
Purpose: long mountain run
Distance: 30.00 km
Time: 4 hrs 17 mins 33 secs
Rate: 8' 35" per km
Altitude gain: 1548 metres
Recovery: 10 minutes in river at Tharwa bridge
Weather: sunny, temp range 18-28 degrees, humidity 60%-40%, wind mostly calm, then NW 10 kmph
Week: 92.95 km, Dec: 318.6 km, Year: 5163.5 km
Before I forget, we saw a nice red belly black snake on our first return from the top of the mountain about 200 metres down. Not there when we went up, so a sneaky snake out for a look around. Good size, may be just over a metre long.
Company of Softshoe this morning with an early start, for us, at 6:30 am due to the anticipated warm sunny day. Not many about on the mountain today probably due to Christmas shopping.
The humid weather certainly made it difficult combined with no breeze for most of the morning.
Just outside usual time for first trip to the top on the walking track at 77 minutes, so happy with that.
A good run down the fire trail to the gate at Apollo Road where the surface is in good condition and a minute under 2 hours to get there, so right on pace.
The climb back up was hard work with a bit more walking, although good solid walking, than I would have liked. Again just outside usual time for that section, I still can't get near 60 minutes for the 6.8 kms.
The most dangerous and some may say most exciting part is the final down on the walking track which is rocky & technical trail. Can be fun or can be disaster. Much care is needed, so time is slow.
Arrived back at the start at the Namadgi Visitor's Centre with 27.8 kms for distance and 4 hrs 2 minutes for time. While waiting for Softshoe to arrive, ran back to meet him and bought the day's distance up to 30 kms.
Best time for the double for a while, so I hope that has set up the first section of B2H and I won't have to worry about the cut off.
Stopped at the river at Tharwa bridge for 10 minutes in the water just to refresh. No much water in there now, and it is getting too warm for good recovery, just nice.
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