Walk this way...

Another week. Another walk!

On Wednesday, I enjoyed a lovely 75 min walk in/around Glenbrook with Fliss at 6am. A very cool morning; 3/4 pants + a t-shirt + a long sleeve top was not quite enough clothing.

We started at the gate & walked down the hill to the causeway to find it closed. There had been constant rain on Tuesday in the mountains apparently and the causeway had about 20 cms of water over the top of it.

So we turned around & walked back up the hill, then down the trail to Jellybean pool, back up the road & then a loop through Glenbrook via a steep bush stair climb.

It was a lovely way to start the morning. I woke feeling exhausted & probably wouldn't have trained but for the fact I had arranged to meet Fliss.
Then today (Sunday) was a long day which, in my current exhausted state, I can only begin to summarise in point form!

• woke at 4.30am & was out the door by 5am for the drive to Bronte to meet Lulu and Sammy for our long walk;
• arrived at Bronte by 6am & started walking from Coogee at 6.30am to walk part of the Coastrek course in reverse starting from Coogee (finish) and back along the course to Sth Head, around to Rushcutters Bay and then up to Edgecliffe & back to home (my second home in Bronte) finishing with 31.8k in 5hr 45mins walking time;
• had a quick bite to eat at Cafe K and then drove home like a crazy woman, had a 20min turnaround and then headed down to watch the PTC race (and another 3+ hours on my feet).

Phew!

Not-so-quick sand

Another week. Another week without much to report.

Monday morning's swim was the usual 1.2km. I've been doing the same swim over the last few weeks as I develop some form of swim fitness. This set includes 9 x 25m fast which are gradually getting faster each week so it's been a great way to gauge my fitness improvements. Time to change it up next week :)

Tuesday saw me meet a friend at 8am at the gates to the Glenbrook National Park for a walk & some stair repeats. 1hr 40min and 7.1km later (including 3 x fast stair repeats), we headed for a local cafe for the obligatory post-walk coffee. Beautiful way to start a day!

And then today was another l-o-n-g walk this time from Bilgola (just south of Avalon) all the way down to Queenscliff on the Coastrek course with my team mates Lulu, Sammy & Zoe.  A hot hilly & sandy route to say the least! It can best be described as -

up-up-up-up a headland,

down-down-down-down a headland,
sand-sand-sand-sand-sand across a beach.

And repeat.

Multiple times :0

Throw in lots of concrete paths & it was hard on legs more used to spending time on trails. In total it was 23.6km in 4hr 53mins. I have *lots* of work to do in the next 12 weeks & 5 days!

Thunder rolls...

Another Sunday, another update.

Not much to report this week - I've been flat this week. Not sure why. Just very tired.

Monday saw the usual 1.2km swim. I can see (feel?) my speed during the 25m efforts starting to return.

Then today I met Sonia for a walk in the Glenbrook National Park, exploring a part of the park neither of us had been to (which is almost hard to believe given how much time we have both spent in there over the years). It was well worth it - a walk down along the Jack Evans Track to Erskine Creek...

A perfect place for a swim on a hot today. Unfortunately today wasn't it - a storm rolled in (quickly) whilst we were down in the gorge which sent us climbing back up out of the gorge in the pouring rain.

A shorter walk than I had planned but after the rain, a cool breeze picked up & we were both getting cold. Just nice to get back in the bush again. 12.4km. 2:57