running long 1:29:15 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 21
Big group again today, even though Juffy and FTP did their own pram-friendly thing. Headed out past the waterhole on Cox Creek with B&S, Zara/Callum, John, Nic, Steve, Liv, Bobby. Down Silver Rd to the Verdun roundabout then down Taminga Grove under the freeway, where John had kindly placed water. This is a hard-packed white gravel road, my least favourite kind, and I really struggled on the steep pinches especially as my arches were trying to chafe. Hat-wetting stop at Cox Creek, long slow slog up the hill, regathering stop and we all decided to go down into Mylor for a drink at the school. I headed off from Mylor precipitately in order to get the long slog up Wilson Rd over with as soon as possible, but unfortunately the others didn't realise I'd left already - oops. Also I feared that if I stopped to wait for anyone else I'd seize up and be unable to get going again...anyway, down the Heysen singletrail and into Bridgewater was ok although I was a bit on autopilot by then and not saying much when Zara & Steve came past me. At least I'd had breakfast, unlike Bobby who apparently bonked a little on the final sector.