Hi there
Having never run in this area before, I was a little anxious, but it turned out to be a lovely ‘mixed’ run. Plenty of walking, single tracks, bushwhacking, rock scrambling, tricky descents, dune running and then some road running at the end. Eight of us decided to stick together, and as you can see from the profile of the route, we just climbed higher and higher and had to do a lot of walking. As I had never done this route before, Tim kindly offered to leave ‘arrows’ on the path so we knew which way to go. Anthony was up front and we were all relieved to find Tim’s arrows often on the path as well as at various intersections and as we were running once again in the mist we could easily have lost our way. The views we did see however were spectacular. I did have a moment of panic when I saw a steep rocky section down to the Sandy Bay dunes, but Graham had come back for us and thanks to him and the rest of the group, we all managed to negotiate the descent.
Before long, we were down, and with a short run on the dunes we then stretched the legs on the road back to the harbour. A lovely run of 10.85 km, no missing runners or injuries (as far as I know).
Cheers
Gae
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From my part, a big thank-you to Gae for standing in and leading the group while Peter and I were out of action. Peter is safely back from his travels and will, I am certain, be back to lead on Saturday coming.
I hope to see you all on saturday when, rumour has it we will be running (in Tim's words) - Koof Nek and around Devil's peak somehow.........
Sandy
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