running long 1:43:31 [3]
shoes: Asics Gel 2160
Belair perimeter trail run with the SARRC mob - at least 50 people. Fern & Tyson popped up just as they were leaving, having run from home, and Lauren managed to catch the group after about 10 min, but we never saw Zara until afterwards. Fern & I ran reasonably hard up the hills past the waterfalls, and then where everyone turned right back down Jubilee Drive to avoid yesterday's controlled burn in the east part of the park, we realised how stuffed we now were and decided to wait for Tyson. So the 3 of us headed past the little dam and cautiously inspected the burn site which was to the east of the MTB singletrack down to the redwoods, had no warning signs out, and appeared to be well and truly out.
When we got down to the redwoods (that valley is thankfully unscathed) we could see some vegetation smouldering and halfway up the other side we encountered the fire trucks observing the still-glowing bits and the trees which might fall on us, so we got out of there pretty quickly on their advice. Followed the boundary track around the cottages and then went down the Suffolk Road goat track (knees did not like this) then F&T headed home and I toiled up Rankeys Hill Rd and back across the golf course. Good run on a lovely morning, managed better than I expected but had to ice knee when I got home as it stiffened up a lot :(