Two glasses of wine later & 4 hours of sleep, my alarm went off at 5.10am this morning. No sleep-ins for this girl this weekend. Undercover Bro had very kindly offered to pick me up at 5.40am for a tour of the fabled trails around Mt Coot-tha. After escaping the traffic that was a large group training for Kokoda, we headed straight for the top of Mt Coot-tha before heading off on firetrails on the other side. Don't ask me exactly where we went - apart from the Kokoda trail (and that memorable hill!) I have no idea. But I did notice a sign to the "Powerful Owl trail" :-)
I felt really flat & tired to start with - perhaps unsurprisingly given the lack of sleep I've had this week & the fact that we headed straight to the summit of Mt Coot-tha first. But I quickly settled into it, assisted greatly by the Bro's company, tour guiding & conversation - thanks D!
1:52 later we were back at the car. Nothing like a great run on a beautiful trail to put a crap week at work behind you. Finished with 13.61km (av 8:16m/k!!)
Will add the elevation graph when I get home - should be a pretty picture ;-)
Edit - as I said, a pretty picture !
Total for June - 91.87k
5 comments:
was a pleasure running with u jen.
hopefully next time i take u on a guided tour we're at glasshouse! :)
will send u a map piccie of the run.
may even send u a map of the area for your collection ;)
I've always wanted to run around Mt Coot-tha (well, 'always' being the last few years since I've been reading about it). Anyhow, once again, you're making your own luck :-)
Gnome
This is exactly why we run!!!
oh that is so cool!
for some reason i thought there was at least a little flat in that run somewhere.
looks like i can save it as a jpeg and copy it to my blog.
or maybe that breaks some kind of blogging rule?
Certainly no flat in that run.. glad you had a good weekend with the Qlders!
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