running long 2:16:52 [3] 24.5 km (5:35 / km)
shoes: Asics GT-2000
Legs know the drill: up through Shepherds Hill and Eden Hills to Blackwood, up & down to Belair, along Sheoak to Pony Ridge and back down Brownhill Creek. Got this done before the cloud lifted. It wasn't too bad; very slow up hills and I stopped to drink and stretch at 50, 70, 115 min (which stops would all be included in the timing of a paid run, but my knees needed them) but got to the bottom of Pony Ridge in 90 and finished fairly solidly from there, although I did ice my knees afterwards and had a fairly lazy day.
Funniest moment was somewhere in Belair where a middle-aged, well-groomed couple were putting her Louis Vuitton bags (possibly knock-offs, but I am not an expert) into the back of their car, supervised by the smallest and cutest of Border Collie pups - which promptly toddled out into the road to greet me, widdled next to my shoes in excitement, and then sat down in the puddle to the horror of the lady, who as she came and picked it up held the wee beastie as far away as possible from her smart jacket!