Black Mountain...

in my infinite (?!) wisdom, i elected to participate in today's Black Mountain Run Up at lunchtime...

i jogged over leaving not much time to spare before the start, FlashDuck said a quick hello and i saw a few of the other runners i am becoming more familiar with...

everyone started at the same time so i figured i would have plenty of people to follow...there was a simple map at the start but you never know if you are going to miss a turn...i need not have worried as there were little arrow signs where necessary and i did always have someone in sight...

after yesterday's rain, the course was surprisingly slip-free and today's weather bore absolutely no relation to yesterday's as it was quite warm indeed...

the last k was spent mostly walking with the occasional trot but i found it too steep to maintain any sort of running rhythm...the graph below is of the run up itself (2.59k)...


and what goes up must come down so after a brief rest at the top i made my back down, roughly retracing my steps to the start and then made my way back to work...

i guess this was a 4 part run:

	distance	time	avg pace	calories	avg HR
Warm up	2.26k	12:21	5:27	156	160
rest 2:12
UP!	2.59k	20:28	7:53	167	171
rest 6:29
DOWN!	2.50k	18:14	7:17	170	146
rest 0:09 (!)
Warm down	2.00k	14:32	6:33	184	151
TOTAL	9.36k	65:37	7:01	677	157

tonight we are going geocaching, this time over near Parliament House to start with and i will get to try out my new light weight hiking boots which i bought on Saturday...

i think i'm going to be glad that tomorrow is a swim day!