Running race (Crossy) 48:26 [4] 12.0 km (4:02 / km)
shoes: kayano 16
Had a lie in instead of doing the bilbys ride and opted for the crossy. This was the longstaff/pennington 12kround weston park. The recent rain meant that the ground was a bit soft in places and there was quite a bit of grass/weeds. The 'beach' wasn't too bad as the rain had made it a bit harder. Set off at a pretty good pace and was in a bunch with some of the fast girls, and in front of stuey. Broke away with this girl in an orange top about halfway through lap 1, went through lap 1 in about 15.35 and traded the lead with her a few times through the second lap. Halfway through the second lap could see scotty about 100m back at the turn round looking strong. The battle with the orange girl must have helped keep the pace on, she pulled away a bit towards the end of the second lap (and her finish). Was 31.55 at the end of the second lap, so had slowed quite a bit. Ran the first half quite well but saw scotty a lot closer at the turn. Going through the sand and up the little rises after it started to take their toll, and scotty went past me here. I managed to stay with him for a few hundred metres, at least making him work a bit, but dropped off with about 1 km to go. From here kept running through the cruel roller coaster section up to the finish. Am guessing the time was about 49 mins, which is about the same as last year, but it seems the course was a bit longer.
Update - time was 48.26, so didn't slow too badly on the 3rd lap.
Running warm up/down 30:00 [3]
shoes: kayano 16
Did a fairly good warmup with sanders and patrick and a good long warm down with gramps, vanessa, sanders. Had coffee after with some of the runners. Interesting contrast to a cockies breakfast - everyone had toast or banana bread and either had no butter or a thin smearing, apart from gramps who was sledged for putting massive wedges of butter on his toast. Gramps was trying to persuade everyone to go to the fast girls sunday run at stromlo and do the north face 100 next year