C2S trial
This morning we were up and out and down to Rushcutters Bay to meet up with the trial runners! Mr Lulu ran down for his run and I took the car down. We all met at the corner of New Beach Rd to start our C2S trial run. The runners were me, The Owl, Tiger Angel, SfGnome and Go Girl. We took off at an easy pace warming up on the first hill out of Rushcutters Bay. We hit the bottom of Heartbreak Hill after about 28 mins and started the trek up. We kept together and then close to the top we saw our aid station set up by Mr Lulu so most of us stopped for a quick drink apart from Gnome who wanted to make sure he ran all the way to the top.After this we spread out a little with TA and Go Girl leading the way. Mr Lulu acted as marshall and stopped the car wherever there was a turn on the route to make sure that we didn't get lost and to hand out drinks if anyone needed one.
There were lots of runners out and about and we passed MPHaz and then a few minutes later Amjan running the other way. The hills through Dover Heights are not too bad but the course is definately not all flat or downhill after HBH. The last hill down into Bondi is great and then it's just the last bit along Campbell Parade. We did the full experience by turning down from Campbell Pde for the finish line.
As well as being marshall and drinks monitor Mr Lulu was also official photographer and took plenty of snaps along the way, including one of Amjan.
Good fun to run with everyone and of course the run was followed by a lovely brekkie at Mocean overlooking the beach. Jen_runs joined us for the most important part of the day and then I ran everyone back to Rushcutters in the car.
Garth tells me did 12.28 km in 1.18.38. Average pace over the whole distance was 6.24/km but more pleasingly the last 42 mins or 7.1 km my average pace was 6mins/km so after HBH was out of the way I picked up the pace. This was probably because I was chasing TA and Go Girl.. and not catching them as they shook me off on the hills.
Total cals 800..I always like seeing that sort of number.
Below is the elevation of the route, courtesy of Garth I'm not sure about the last section as it didn't feel like we were going up a hill along Campbell Pde. The hills are certainly not over once you have done HBH though!
Thanks for the company everyone and Mr Lulu for support crew duties.
posted by Lulu @ 11:18 AM
2 Comments:
Sounds like a good hit-out before C2S. Isn't Garth a clever little gadget -mine will probably end up being called Thingy (I actually refer to the GPS Thingy now!! Running with a group is good fun - helps keep you going sometimes. And the brekky afterwards - thats the reason I run!!!
Campbell Parade certainly does have a long gradual incline - you'll notice it when you've just run the 14k at race pace :-)
sfG
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