running long (Marion Coastal Trail) 1:32:00 [3] 13.0 km (7:05 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
Australia Day Seacliff to Hallett Cove Run! I don't think I've done this on the correct date since...2 days before our wedding. And I hadn't realised that the SARRC/SA Trail Running mob still maintain the tradition. Except that they started from Brighton Jetty at 7am, and we (Bridget, Simon, Stefano, Andrew, John) started from Seacliff Yacht Club 2km south about 15 min later. So we were passing people who had to walk the stairs, all the way. There are 4 big sets of stairs, and I hate going down them, because I can see the ground beneath and it really freaks me out because I'm not good with heights. Going up was fine, although legs sometimes a bit lactic at the top, strangely enough. Once we got into the conservation park, it was really nice along the clifftops, and the waterfall is still flowing after recent rains. I decided not to go up around the sugarloaf on the return trip but did finish off with an extra loop above the caravan park at the end.
Happy not to have done the extra 4km to/from Brighton, although I've looked up my 2012 log and found that the 17km distance only took me an extra 10 min back then; clearly I've lost a bit of fitness in the intervening 5 years (actually, lost a lot at one point when my knees were bad but have regained - rogained? - some since then) and so I need to invent a 3-month pre-WMOC training plan :)