Training Log Archive: T - runner

With Sarah, Magnus, and Lisa. From the bottom of the walkway in Eastbourne to the Bus Barn, then up the track and over the top to Butterfly Creek, then along and climbed over the tree and broken bridge where the track was closed, back up onto the top, then Sarah and Lisa(both of whom had lung snot...) went back down to the car and Magnus and I continued on along the possum track and down into Days Bay. An awesome run - great weather and a really nice track with heaps of native bush. Lung causing a few problems though, and I died a bit on the hills.

A bit tired after this morning, but I scored a goal and it was fun:)

Gurkha Crs to Ohariu Valley, then decided to just keep going and see how long the loop to Makara and back past the cemetery into Karori and back to Khandallah took. Answer: probably slightly shorter than an hour 52, because I didn't know where I was going - I was a bit scared that I'd still be out there with the massive climb back into Karori still to go after two hours. I can see why most people do that loop in the other direction.

Lizzie was back in the country, so Sarah, Magnus and I heard lots of amusing stories about the trip on our run. Sarah's place, up the track to the sanctuary fence, then along and down into Kelburn? where Lizzie's car was still parked from uni and drove back to Sarah's. Still never run near the sanctuary in the daytime!

Torrential downpour in Whitby with Hayley - we had to stick to the footpaths because everywhere else was deep mud, and even then we were mostly running in 2-20cm of water, with raging streams beside us and sometimes crossing our path. Got completely drenched and couldn't see for the first part because the rain was being blown straight into our eyes. On the upside, it was fun, and we found $80, so we got Indian takeaways for tea afterwards:)

From the hospital up Mt Vic and pretty much straight back so I wasn't too late for my meeting. Really nice day for it and heaps of runners around.

After a long day of class, so cut short a bit by the darkness - I took my headlamp for the bit I did in the bush but I wasn't keen to make it too long. Gurkha Crs to Khandallah Park, middle track and over towards Lizzie's then up to the track that comes down from the top, then down past Lizzie's and back via the road past the station and round to the bottom of the gully and back via the front roads. Legs felt pretty fatigued after yesterday.

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Gurkha Crs along the main road, detour into Crofton Downs and up to check out Magnus and Lisa's new section, then up again to the Skyline walkway carpark, then back down the hill and kept going to the intersection that takes you up to Karori or down to town, then back and through Khandallah village and the front roads home. Feeling tired after the weekend, but also a bit lazy - didn't do as much running as I though I was going to.

Up and down Mt Kaukau the usual way with Bev - anything to distract me from the study I should be doing...

Night run from the Brooklyn windmill along the Karori sanctuary fence, then Carparts mountainbike track, then back along the fence for some "bonus hills", and back down the track to Sarah's. With Sarah, Magnus, Jamie B-W, Hamish, and Lisa (as far as the car again, where she cut off).

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