running long (Drowned Rat Simulation) 2:45:30 [3] 29.3 km (5:39 / km) +600m 5:07 / km
shoes: Asics Gel 2140
Now, if the forecast said showers late morning, wouldn't you expect to be able to fit in a 3-hour run between daylight and rainfall?
But no, it was drizzling when I left home and by the time I'd gone up through Randells Reserve to Belair (33 min) it was thoroughly soggy. Not long after, so was I, and once you're so wet that you can't be any wetter, you may as well settle in and enjoy it. All I had taken with me was a handful of scroggin (a hangover from the Anzac Day rogaine; it's been sort of a magic pudding) and the on-call phone, sealed in a ziplock bag. Along Sheoak Rd, into the park at the top of Pony Ridge and up past the waterfalls (I pre-empted the slipperiest bit of the singletrack and therefore didn't stack it) to the tap at the top of the park, now on 75 minutes. Down to the railway line, east to the old Upper Sturt Station, up Station Rd to Upper Sturt Rd (92 min) past the tennis courts down into the park and back along Long Gully to the park entrance (122min) where I came across Harry Waterhouse and some of the other road runners and he expressed surprise that I was on my own. Up to Belair, down Gloucester Ave to home. The last section took just under 32, so I wasn't any slower than when I have just normally been up to Belair and am coming back down.
I'd say this run was lots more fun than the SARRC Athelstone to Henley Beach 30km which was on today and a heaps better option than mountain bike orienteering at Fox Creek :)