After a night on the town throwing axes, then imbibing in alcoholic delights, 7am came very early this morning.
The promise: I will trail run 30km today on a trail I’ve been wanting to run in its entirety for a decade. Fortunately for me, Michelle Wilde came to the rescue and provided the one piece of the puzzle that I did not have before; access to a 2nd vehicle and a willingness to torture herself as badly as me!
This was a point to point trail run beginning near my home and finishing in Joondalup. Quite a distance even by car, but huge on foot!
So early this morning, I met Michelle at Neil Hawkins Park in Joondalup. We left her car there and I drove us back to Yanchep to the start of our very ambitious run.
After a night out, neither of us really felt like running but we are both training for the Transcend Trails race in August and knew we just had to get it done regardless.
It was a glorious run filled with countless hills and valleys, rocky trails, dangerous ankle breaking stones, loose sand and hard top running. In the end, we completed an amazing run!
It was my fastest trail run at this distance and my longest to date! 4 hours 18 minutes with an average pace of 8:29 min/km, 30.39km (18.88 miles).