After a week of anxious
weather watching, the weather gods smiled on us and a cold but beautiful
morning greeted the 25 trailers who gathered at Olifantsbos. This is one of my
favourite routes as it contains bits of everything you could meet on a trail.
It is short at 10km, but runnable and challenging.
When the sunrise
hit the cloud formations and the amazing scenery, you would have thought
that we were a group of photographers rather than runners!
The fast group
took off behind Julian and co and we didn't see them again... We started
out along the beach visiting the Thomas Tucker and other wrecks, then turned
inland for some flowing single track to Sirkelsvlei. After regrouping there we
started back along the rocky paths along the ridge back to the cars. A few of
us did the ground-kissing thing but no serious injuries reported. Peter led his
slower group at a more sedate pace along the same route.
Some bemused bontebok
watched us all run back to the cars, while other animal spottings were a civet, a mongoose and an ostrich with 5 babies.
A beautiful run, well
worth the early alarm clock and the drive in the dark.
Aubrey Springer did his25th sortie and we have Felicity and Julian on their 99th, so next week we could see them earn their black tees. Well done to the 5
newbies! Welcome to the trailers.
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