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Finally a fantastic morning for a run, still very humid but not hot and with a cool breeze. Dawn clouds tinged orange/pink with glimpses of green/blue sky, and 15 degrees of rainbow in the southeast. It must have been raining, but the pavements were dry.
There were four of us this AM. We took the so-called Earlwood Waterfall, also (I discovered today) known as Cup and Saucer Creek - equally inappropriate for the visual impact - route, and came back along the bush track which has been cleaned up a fair bit since my last run on it a month ago. It's a bloody hilly route though, it's 10k that seems a fair bit further. The worst is the staircase at the end; it's a very aesthetic staircase coming down the escarpment and wrapped in treeline, that has to be conceded, but it's murder on the knees.
Along the Alexandria Canal (a bit OTT for the stumpy remains of an aborted 19th century transport plan) we saw a couple of rowing shells (fours) out practising. So, something athletic does happen in that rowing club. Most of the rest of the run was a bit makeweight, just adding in loops until we got up to the 30 km mark. It's harder than knowing your route in advance, because it's more difficult to-set intermediate goals; at least that's how I found it.
I was experimenting with eating & running for the first time. I can't quite work out how to deal with the nutrition problem on the marathon. A lot of people say that you can't actually digest anything fast enough to make use of it, but I reckon they're running a lot faster than me. It's going to take me 4+ hours to run 42 km, and for sure I can digest a meal in four hours; usually I'm hungry two hours after breakfast, even without exercise. But it's also true that you don't feel much like eating when running. Still, no stomach cramps seems promising. Fruitcake is more pleasant than al the synthetic gunk you can buy, and seems pretty god value in terms of calories/gram. That's why people run marathons: it lets them eat cake.
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