A small group met at Parliament House on Thursday to run some longer intervals... 4 x 600 (300) + 2 x 200 (200)... and on Sunday I ran at Stromlo Forest Park... I am not sure why numbers are down this year? Back at Parliament House, Monday’s training saw Bronwyn, Pieta, Kym and Isaac run some killer hills …. We may move away from the hills next week as there is more daylight now and we will be able to use some of the trails away from the road.
Sunday’s report from the long trail run group follows! Written by Jen.
I'm writing up a rather brief speedygeese long run report for Sundays run. David Clarke appears to be worn out from writing the last one that involved three individual reports to cover the run.
Plus watching his family doing most of the packing for his recent move was most exhausting for him!!!
Last Sundays speedy geese long run involved practicing leg 1 of the sri chinmoy 104 relay. (Minus the first boring flat part).
After a few logistic hiccups around car transport (created by Dave's last minute decision to meet at the end of the run rather the beginning which destroyed Mhairi's hours and hours of planning as we then didn't account for enough car space for all our bottoms) ...we sorted everything out again and all was going smoothly until - Dave arrived late!!... this however is a regular occurrence...
Mhairi ("Vari" for those struggling with this Scottish name) had accounted for this high probability occurrence and so we still got to Red Hill on time 😊 (and Isaac got a free hot chocolate for Dave's penance)
The run itself went amazingly smoothly. Not one single wrong turn!
Adrian reminded up to stop and enjoy the views (I don't need to be asked twice to stop and rest 😂)
Lots of lovely views too - top of Red Hill, Isaacs ridge and finally Mount Taylor.
Most of us ran around 19k (Kerron, Adrian, Sandeep, Mhairi) ... Narelle rounded up to 20k (potentially Adrian did the same) and Thach ran a huge 36k after running to the start from home and then ran back to home from mount taylor.
Isaac ran approximately 12k - one will never know exactly how far he runs - he rarely uploads to Strava. Apparently put off by some Strava nutters he knows (not sure who this could be - perhaps some school friends ???)
Finally Dave ran 10k - mainly by himself. Supposedly due to sore legs (personally I think he is petrified by the tunnel we had to crawl through to get to Isaacs from Red hill)
Well my run report wasn't so brief after all.
##Special thanks to Dave for his 5 star uber collection of Isaac (Dave maybe a good opportunity to provide your mobile now to potential clients while you have this 5 ⭐️ rating -just in case it doesn't last... when a few disgruntled clients get a lovely tour of Canberra rather than the 10 minute trip they envisioned due to a small amount of "exploring" from you)
And for Tim Craig who provided us with a lovely big smile at the end of the run and gave anyone who needed a lift back to Red hill and super big thank you!!
