Procrastinated about doing this race and finally decided that I needed to know if my fitness is up to the challenge of the hills under race conditions. Today was the last day of summer so I had to get out. Over a 120 runners turned out this morning to run the Equalizer in Garigal National Park. Conditions were dry but very humid. My race plan was simple, go hard and then hang on for as long as I could. The plan went well till about 5km where I fell in step with another runner with whom I started a conversation. We ran and chatted happily, no one was overtaking us, we were enjoying the morning – just like a regular Sunday training run - until 11km into the run where we started being overtaken. Suddenly we both realised that we were supposed to be racing - that was the end of the chat, I put the foot down and regained my position. I finished in reasonable shape in 1:24 and enjoyed the run, enjoyed the chat and pleased as punch with the effort. However, the nailpolish took a battering but the toes are still feeling fine.
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