It took less than an hour to drive from Mittagong to Mirrambeena Reserve; registered & ran 2km & a few strides as a warm-up & then the 'fun' began!
The run was planned as a fairly 'easy' run in preparation for the GC half rather than at all out race effort. First 8km loop...... 55:30 minutes. Very cool conditions, excellent for running & a super beautiful course. 52:59 for the second 8km loop.
As did many others today, I missed a turn off from the main pathway, cutting the course short by about 1km. However, there were 4 other CRs up ahead of me who had also missed the same turn so we decided to double back to include the missed section & that gave us 16km on our Garmins thereby running the correct distance. Not one of us considered finishing until all Garmins clicked on 16km!
Apart from that drama, it was a great run & I enjoyed it immensely.
Time : 1:48:33
Ha ha, making up the distance - typical obsessive runners :)
ReplyDeleteYou got better each lap. WELL DONE
ReplyDeleteLovely to see you again Chickybabe. You certainly showed those young'uns how to run. Nice negative split to boot.
ReplyDeleteWell done! That means you would have placed in the top-3 females overall of those who ran the correct distance :)
ReplyDeleteGreat work LL. A very impressive negative split. You are in form for a very enjoyable GC Half. No chance of missing turn there.
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