SA Long Distance Trail Champs at Oliviershoek Pass. Brilliant route along the ridge line that eventually leads up to Witsieshoek. Weather was perfect as well - perhaps a little hot at times, but nothing too bad. The route is also very technical, with not too many sections that are comfortably runnable, and lots of off-trail grassy running.
Tried to keep the effort well under control, given my lack of proper longer-distance training and it seemed to work pretty well. Passed lots of people on the power-hiking climbs and was passed by many on the technical rocky descents, nursing my knee. The injury hardly caused issues though - physio tape worked brilliantly.
Did have a low heading up the ridiculously steep Vulture's Pass (Balloch Wall deja vu) at the 25km mark and took a good 20 minutes of walking even easy stuff to get back into the groove.
Think I finished more-or-less top-30 out of 100 starters. Johardt won in 3h40ish!
TE 4.9
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