running (Whakarewarewa) 40:00 [3]
shoes: Asics 2000-4
Redwoods run with a difference, also with Zara & Blair. Beautifully soft underfoot in the lovely tree-ferny enchanted forest, which my legs appreciated. We passed a group of Japanese tourists who clapped & cheered! Have been feeling a bit headachy and sore-throaty the last couple of days which I'd put down to general mustiness in the house where we're staying and stiff neck from strange beds, but I might actually be getting slightly sick. Feeling a little queasy on the mountain roads too (maybe from lack of salt?) so after we'd been to see Lake Tarawera - hard to believe that the whole thing erupted disastrously in 1886 - I opted out of doing the luge from top of the Skyline gondola with G & J & B and just had fun watching everyone else. Views were good from up there though, and we also went for a nice short walk to the waterfalls below the outflow of Lake Rotorua and were lucky enough to see some kayakers shoot over.
