The last few days have been crazy - I've been curating exhibitions and attending openings and an arts award night (I didn't win, but was good exposure nevertheless!) Managed to squish in a weights session on friday, but by saturday, I was absolutely buggered and slept through my alarms for both plan A (5k TT at Shorncliffe) and plan B (Running Buddies) and instead went for plan C: running Mount Coot-tha.
I've wanted to have a go at the whole Mount Cootha run for ages but had been too chicken to do it with anyone else due to the copious amounts of walking I thought would be involved. Definitely right on that score! I spent most of the time thinking how on earth does anyone manage to run this entire thing from beginning to end? there were some serious hills! Mind you, I guess that what with it being a mountain and all, you get that ;)
I now feel I have to do that circuit regularly until I can run at least a respectable portion of it. I've got no idea what distance it is - anyone got any idea?
Eating is going well - down 2kgs and counting!
5 comments:
Woohoo Hannah - Mt Coot-tha!!!! Good on ya!
BRRC have an annual King and Queen of the Mountain race - they say the distance is 9.6km.
Clairie and I are planning a regular Friday morning assault, perhaps we can get a little regular group happening.
That's funny Tesso - I thought when we agreed to run it you said it was 2.6km!!!
Hannah I'm told running Mt Cootha is really good for building the legs for running well. I am yet to do it but have it scheduled in for the next few weeks before Kurrawa.
I was just about to ask how long the run was, but then read Tess' post. I would love to join the Friday morning assault next time I'm up there!
Sounds like a fantastic place to run Hannah and great for building strength. Well done!
J.
Oooh I might join in that! Well done, did you go anti-clockwise? I prefer that way because the summit is actually higher than the lookout, so it's kind of like running downhill the whole way... only not really... but it helps with the mental factor. I used to love running up there. I highly recommend running up to the cafe for a drink of water at the bubbler... someone inevitably asks you, "did you really run all that way from the other side?" which feels great :)
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