Trail Running (Bapsfontein) 23:00 4.88 km (4:43 / km) +37m4:33 / km ahr:164 max:184 shoes: Salomon Sense Ride4 #2 Baby Bl
Bapsfontein Hotel Parkrun, the new replacement for the Bapsfontein Parkrun which closed during Covid.
Did a short warm-up before to test the right foot... pain 2/10. Started off okay at about 4:30 pace and managed to ignore the pain. Afterwards 5/10 and later in the day 8/10, so not good.
Was challenging for the win, but foot didn't feel good and have lost a bit of speed recently. Was close to 100% but I was still up the a late attack until a slow starter flew by both of us at 3.5km. Settled for 3rd after that.
Otherwise quite a nice parkrun with an out-and-back lollipop. Thick grass and bush on the sides of the trail but a clearly graded wide track, so very easy to marshal. Not much mud given the rain of late.
Cradle ride from Sprockets. Out via Lanseria to Caves and back via Bidon and Elandsdrift. Kept a nice speed going, with some motivation curtesy a roadie drafting me along the Caves section.
Planner and control placer for Schools League event at Pinnacle College / Summit College.
Nice area to work with and managed to get some interesting controls and route choices in there that caught a few people off guard, especially those who had studied the previous map in detail and didn't read the new map for changes to fences and gates.