Week 2 - A Hot One

Running: Year to Date

Distance:  174.05  kms in 2 weeks at ave  87.02 km ( down from 98.8 kms last week)

This week:  75.25 kms

Altitude:  3,419 metres in 2 weeks at ave  1,709 metres ( down from 1,827 metres last week)

This week: 1,592 metres

A couple of highlights during the past week. A really good run up Mt Tennent on Saturday morning with a dozen others all of whom I did not know except my usual running mate.
Most of this group are training for Six Foot Track and haven't been up and down Mt Tennent before. Easy to understand why, as it's about 750 metres of up hill in the first 7 kms. We did a loop around the back of the mountain, so 4 kms of fast down hill on the fire trail followed by more up hill to complete the loop. Then the technical 4.7 kms down the walking track which requires plenty of care as it's rocky, very steep in places & plenty of steps & logs to negotiate. Only the last few 100 metres are really open runnable.
My best run up and down for almost 3 years, happy to be as close to the younger ones as I was.
Most of this week's distance & altitude came from this one run.
The other highlight, or lowlight, was the hot weather from Monday to Thursday morning. We are having summer in full with temps this week reaching the very high 30's C.
Managed to run all days this week, but with these hot days, pulled back the distance & kept it flat. These day only around 7-9 kms each resulting in the low weekly total.
However, all good. A bit of heat is always welcome. Best part, very low humidity and little wind.