I couldn't have hoped for a better recovery from the adventures of last Sunday. This week has been ridiculously comfortable as far as niggles, aches and pains are concerend ... notice I don't say easy? I find nothing easy about a week that's had 2x20km runs and finished with a 30km but most runners would be able to relate whatever their preferred distance.
Very nice run to finish the week week off after GCM. A bit heavy going for the last few km but mainly psychological as I'd miscalculated the distance and was already winding down to the finish. Some might argue that for the sake of a few km's/minutes it makes no difference ... try telling that to Roger Bannister! My week has gone well and my schedule had a 30km run in today and though last weeks marathon turned out to be a different affair than was originally planned, there was no reason why I shouldn't do it. When it's the middle of the night at Glasshouse in September and I have 40km still to go, I'll need to be able to pick myself up and switch on again and I think this sort of thing is important (that is to complete what I set out to do).
Anyway, I took a detour and found a few extra km's somewhere else at the end. Very steady 6:00's all around.
One thing though, from about 14km I was in the dark. No problem, I had a light with me. I was running on a wide fire road for a while so I left the light off until about the 19km mark where I turned back into the denser trail, at which point I had to put it on. Strangely, I felt very nervous about running through the bush in the dark and it's really never bothered me before.
It was raining, so visibility was very 'different', but I really can't put my finger on what it was.
Anyway, like I said, very steady tonight and finally found a new loop that I suspected was there but hadn't had time to investigate.
I also discovered 'Noela's Garden' at Donnybrook. Only glimpsed it from the outside but it's a stunning jewel in what seems to be the middle of nowhere.
Check it out here
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