running long (Mt Crawford 4 peaks) 3:33:00 [3] 34.0 km (6:16 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel 2130
Hijacked the SARRC Mt Crawford 3 Peaks trail run for my own nefarious purposes.
From the forest headquarters on Warren Rd I ran south down the road to the junction with Mt Pleasant road, north up Mount road then up the full length of Little Mt Crawford, down & across the creek (tiptoeing on the logs so didn't get my feet wet - ha ha), up Mt Crawford though I didn't see the tapes for the singletrack so went all the way around to where the steps go up, down again and across to Wirra Wirra Peaks, did the loop backwards so I could tell the others where I was headed next.
Singletrack over the peaks was a bit slow and I was flagging at the 2 hour mark, then I ate some snakes and got to the point where, as Simon once said "everyone else has had enough and Jenny just keeps running". Followed the South Para River along its north side to the old bridge across the reservoir; this was 25km and I really just wanted to go back and eat my banana, but I told myself that in a parallel universe there was no banana and there was a 100-point rogaine control on the top of Tower Hill.
You can see the fire tower from a long way off but have to go around private land to get there. I did a lap of the tower then it was downhill the last 4km back. I may have been singing to myself: banananananana-nanananana-bananaa-nanaaaa (to the tune of the ABC radio theme - you try it!) And then I ate my banana :)
I didn't feel worse at the end than I did at the beginning, which I guess was the point of the exercise. Hopefully Pichi Richi will be a bit faster because it's on road not track, and I will be a bit fresher then.