Choo Choo run

Fantastic day for it - thanks to Sandgroper for the organisation and the transport. This run is really tough but is definitely one you remember for a while ... Biscuitman covered it in some detail so I won't just repeat that. Suffice to say, this is a run where you park a car at North Dandelup train station, run 35km up the Darling scarp along some very technical and rolling trail and then down to Serpentine where you catch the Bunbury train from back to N Dandelup and the car.

 Credit has to go to both those guys who (on paper anyway) were underprepared for it in different ways, but both handled it  really well. SG has only one long run under his belt  for the last year, and Biscuitman has done no hill or trail running for a looong time. Both are obviously really fit and mentally tough though - you have to be to get through this run - and came through with flying colours. Biscuitman and I averaged around 4 min/k for the last 9k and SG was only just behind, and had enough to do a little extra at the finish! I could feel my quads disintegrating on the last downhill, but there was little I could do about it!

Biscuitman is looking really good for the GCM in three weeks, looking forward to seeing how he goes then, and, more importantly, in the Marathon Relay next Sunday ;-) Sandgroper has the Warsaw marathon in September and is already in great shape - he should have a cracker.

Quote of the day:

Sugar: "This is where we saw the carpet python last year, wasn't it?"
SG: "Yeah, this really is snake country. After you...."

Course map is here, and elevation profile on my Polar below. Close to 700m of climbing.

                      Distance         Duration        Pace              Speed
5 week avg.* 102.78 km    07:14:08      04:13 min/km   14.21 km/h
Last week        118.34 km    08:23:56      04:15 min/km   14.09 km/h
Change           +15.13%       +16.08%    -0.82%             -0.82%