Sunday Run (10)

Endomondo Running Workout:

These are starting to mount up now; I might have to find some new routes. A perfect morning for running, cool and clear. I can't remember if I confessed to getting lost on my previous run to Coogee, but I managed  to avoid that this time, arriving as planned, somewhat surprised by the number of people up and about in Randwick as I passed through. On the last run I arrived at the north end of the beach  and exited in the middle; this time I arrived in the middle and deaprted via the south end, which, I can now inform you, has an extraordinarliy steep hill. The leading light of the CRRC was actually running in the "Six Foot Track" (q.g.= "quid google") 45 km race Sunday AM and this hill forcibly reminded me that I'm not quite ready for the Blue Mountains yet. Just after I turned right at the top of the hill another runner shot past me (young, so knees able to move quickly downhill)  wearing a 6ft Track race singlet. That's a subtle - in the sense that only a runner would recognise it - boast because 6ft Track is a really hard race, but the way this guy was handling the hills he had probably earned it.

Apart from the fact that Coogee is about 1000 times groovier than Brighton-le-Sands (my other beach), it also has the slap-hiss of breaking ocean waves on the sand versus Botany Bay's gentle swell. Real estate dreams.

The run back through Kingsford and Kensington was all street/pavement, not so exciting. The Inglis stables are on Barker St, south of the Prince of Wales hospital, but they were deserted. Seems like an extraordinarily valuable chunk of land; I still can't really believe the horse racing industry exists at all, let alone that it finances this kind of operation. When we were living in Harris Park (near Rosehill track) there were a couple of two-horse racing stables operating out of suburban backyards: that's more my idea of racing, such as it is.

Anyway, an OK run from a training point of view. Maybe a little bit short.