A warm and humid morning greeted over 40 runners for the 6.00 am start of the Sydney Striders Sunday long run. Today’s run commenced in Brett Park at Drummoyne and traversed the inner west suburbs of Balmain, Petersham, Lewisham, Dulwich Hill, Hurlstone Park, Canterbury, Leichhardt, Lilyfield and back to Drummoyne.
A 30km run which today felt like it was twice that distance. Drenched in sweat before we covered even one kilometre it just got warmer and warmer as we headed into the heartland of inner west Sydney. No cooling seabreeze here. The pace for the first 10km was probably 30 seconds quicker than we should have been doing. I found the run a struggle from the beginning and it just got tougher. Although I seem to get a second wind for a km or two then flag again. It was beginning to get ugly and by 20km there was a group of 8 runners left running together. We finished the run in a surprising time of 3.12, although I walked the rise onto Victoria Rd bridge at the finish. I had planned to have breakfast with Mike in Balmain but feeling hot, salty and crusty we drove home. Shattered - I had to have a nana nap to recover when I got home.
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