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Saturday Aug 15, 2009 #
Run 2:02:00 [3] 24.0 km (5:05 / km)
Spent Friday night in Mallacoota, quiet at this time of year (no surprise) - quiet enough for kangaroos to be grazing the streets. It was also too quiet for Gabo Island to be a goer - will have to come back some other time.
I suspect there are some good runs to be had from Mallacoota (but I needed a better map to be confident of finding them without starting with a 5k road run), but there was a good option nearby - Genoa Peak. This looked a good prospect on the map for a 2-hour run - looked like about 11k from Genoa township (such as it is), with a summit elevation of 490 metres.
Woke up with the Achilles the tightest it's been all trip, but it warmed up well in the first few minutes (although still tender at times). While I knew there would be 490 metres of net climb I wasn't sure how it would manifest itself. As it happened, the first 3k was pretty flat, then a steep 1.5k climb, then rolling but net uphill to the carpark 1.5k short of the summit. The walking track was then steep and rocky, although the only part which was unrunnable was the final ladder climb up some rocks (I turned off the stopwatch for this). Mostly forest roads although there was 1k on the highway at the start and end. Really happy with my strength through the first half, and the view was a great reward for the effort! Didn't roll down the second half quite as smoothly as I would have hoped, but still not a bad day's work.
One thing which caught me by surprise halfway up (given that I thought I was in a national park) was recent logging next to the road, but a check afterwards of the map showed that the road is the park boundary at that spot. There are places in East Gippsland which are sufficiently remote that you probably could just about get away with illegally logging a national park without being noticed, but next to a road to a publicised lookout isn't one of them. (The underenforcement of environmental laws in Victoria due to a lack of staff resources has been a bugbear of mine for a while now).
Did some exploring of the east Gippsland coast on my way across to Lakes Entrance; I've driven the road west from Cann River numerous times but have never been out to the coastline. A reminder that this is still a remote place came when it transpired that there was no fresh bread or milk in Cann River due to a delivery stuff-up (just in case you thought these things only happened in the Territory); I didn't need either but the locals weren't amused. Something else which reminded me of the Territory was the insect plague that decorated the front of my car through most of the afternoon. Gippsland has had flood, fire and earthquake in recent times, so I guess it makes sense for locusts to be next on the list.
The one disappointment of the evening was that the Riviera ice cream outlet was closed. They're usually just around the corner from us at the Gippsland Field Days and I've come to gain a good knowledge of their products.
I suspect there are some good runs to be had from Mallacoota (but I needed a better map to be confident of finding them without starting with a 5k road run), but there was a good option nearby - Genoa Peak. This looked a good prospect on the map for a 2-hour run - looked like about 11k from Genoa township (such as it is), with a summit elevation of 490 metres.
Woke up with the Achilles the tightest it's been all trip, but it warmed up well in the first few minutes (although still tender at times). While I knew there would be 490 metres of net climb I wasn't sure how it would manifest itself. As it happened, the first 3k was pretty flat, then a steep 1.5k climb, then rolling but net uphill to the carpark 1.5k short of the summit. The walking track was then steep and rocky, although the only part which was unrunnable was the final ladder climb up some rocks (I turned off the stopwatch for this). Mostly forest roads although there was 1k on the highway at the start and end. Really happy with my strength through the first half, and the view was a great reward for the effort! Didn't roll down the second half quite as smoothly as I would have hoped, but still not a bad day's work.
One thing which caught me by surprise halfway up (given that I thought I was in a national park) was recent logging next to the road, but a check afterwards of the map showed that the road is the park boundary at that spot. There are places in East Gippsland which are sufficiently remote that you probably could just about get away with illegally logging a national park without being noticed, but next to a road to a publicised lookout isn't one of them. (The underenforcement of environmental laws in Victoria due to a lack of staff resources has been a bugbear of mine for a while now).
Did some exploring of the east Gippsland coast on my way across to Lakes Entrance; I've driven the road west from Cann River numerous times but have never been out to the coastline. A reminder that this is still a remote place came when it transpired that there was no fresh bread or milk in Cann River due to a delivery stuff-up (just in case you thought these things only happened in the Territory); I didn't need either but the locals weren't amused. Something else which reminded me of the Territory was the insect plague that decorated the front of my car through most of the afternoon. Gippsland has had flood, fire and earthquake in recent times, so I guess it makes sense for locusts to be next on the list.
The one disappointment of the evening was that the Riviera ice cream outlet was closed. They're usually just around the corner from us at the Gippsland Field Days and I've come to gain a good knowledge of their products.