Week 31 - Vert Over 100k

Running: Year to Date

Distance:  2,698.15 kms in 31 weeks at ave  87.0 kms ( up from 86.1 kms at week 30)

Last week:  116.3 kms

Altitude:  Garmin- 100,611 metres in 31 weeks at ave  3,245 metres ( up from 3,183 metres at week 30)
Strava:   103,451 metres

Last week:  5,133 metres

With 2 long runs both over 25 kms & 3 days with vertical over 1000 metres, the week had to be above the year long average.
The weather has been very kind for mid winter with mild sunny & calm days making the great outdoors very pleasant.
I found form at the Saturday Parkrun over 5 kms after a slow run the week before. That bit of extra pace certainly makes the rest of the week easier.
Being right in the depths of winter, we are expecting snow to fall on our local mountain. There have been a couple of dumps of snow, but it melts quickly on the warm ground. It's unusual as last winter was a good snow season in Hobart. Mt Wellington is now almost clear of snow.
I ran/walked up another local mountain today and found very little snow as well. Collins Bonnet is close by, just 10 metres lower than Mt Wellington & it has a few patches hidden from the sun.

I'll run as training until later this week, then start a 10 day taper as I have entered a 56 km race in NE Tasmania on a Rail/Trail on 18th August. I believe, but I haven't seen a real course description, that it should be reasonably flat. I wouldn't think trains in the past climbed too many steep inclines. It should be an interesting event.