running long (Bridgewater run) 1:56:00 [3] 19.0 km (6:06 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 15
It only takes 22 min to get from Macclesfield to Bridgewater so I was able to join Zara/Callum, Lauren, Fern, Bridget & Simon for the first of the Sunday morning Bridgewater runs (I am going to miss a few in the near future). I started out feeling absolutely crap because the subsequent activity to riding up the hill yesterday should not have been sitting for a couple of hours without any stretching, but I gradually improved. Tired, though, definitely, and ankle had had enough of the rough sections by the end.
We took the Heysen Trail Spur to Hahndorf via Verdun, having to stop for a freight train to pass when we reached the line, then crossed the Onkaparinga on the road bridge and took Taminga Grove south under the freeway. The Cox's Creek crossing had a fair bit of water in it, to Callum's delight, then we went up to, through and down from Mylor CP into Mylor, up Wilson Rd, followed the Heysen trail down Aldgate Tce (the spongey stuff in the creek bottom has gone and now there's kind of a swamp) and finally back into Bridgie. A few doublings back for little Biddy girl towards the end, but after all this is the longest Bridgewater run we've done for a couple of years. It was scenic and wildflowery and a perfect cool morning for such a run.
Afterwards George & I took Grandfather to the Callington show which we managed to have a quick look around in between the rain showers. 'Twas cold and windy, though, and a number of children's balloons were seen sailing on the breeze in a northeasterly direction. I wonder if any will be found by landowners out at Pymton?