It was a cracking morning in Brisvegas today, and I felt like a trail run. I convinced Annabel it would be a good idea to head to Mt Coot-tha to do some hill repeats. To cater for her needs, I chose an easy trail - the JC Slaughter Falls summit track. It's very well maintained, is tar and good steps in places, is nice and wide, and has a lot of foot traffic. Not overly challenging from a technical trail running perspective, but also very little risk of twisting an ankle a week out from the Coastal Classic! Mt Coot-tha is also a beautiful area, so close to the city, that I had really wanted Annabel to see it.
I wanted to do at least 2 or 3 repeats, whilst Annabel was going to do one then check out the summit view. I ended up doing 3 in total, cutting it short there mainly because Annabel was finished her workout (yep, I'm blaming her for stopping early!!!). All three took me exactly 15 minutes - 9 mins up, 6 mins down. I'm very happy with that consistency. It's meant to be a 2.2km track from where I started to the top, and it's pretty steep in places. I felt very strong both up and down the hill, so am quite confident I'll be able to handle the hills next weekend. I really don't want a repeat of the 6 Foot Track (where I cramped up after 25km because of the downhills).
So, a total of about 14km or so in just under an hour (including warm up / warm down). Annabel did about 6.5km or so, but declared that she really prefers trail running to road running - I might make a trail runner of her yet!
It's Riverfire tonight so we've just shopped up a storm and have a huge array of tasty looking goodies for the boys from work who are coming over to watch the fireworks.
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