Kirribilli Kaper

Wednesday February 24, 2010 (LSD-27km)
Confidence to run the 6FT track Marathon took a battering on the Kirribilli Kaper this morning. After dropping Hammer at work, I left Anderson Park at 6.00 am to run along the harbour foreshore north to Belmoral, then across the Spit and then west through Beauty Point and Tunks Park and across through Cammeray golf course back to Kirribilli. It is an incredibly scenic run with lots of runners and early morning walkers on the sections to Belmoral. I enjoyed the run and was moving well till about 18km when the pain and tightness in my left hamstring/glute overwhelmed the resistance from my brain to register. It stopped me in my tracks and reduced me to walking for most of the hilly sections around Beauty Point and Tunks Park. I resumed running through Cammeray feeling a bit defeated and deflated finishing at Kirribilli in 3hrs 30min.
Although disappointed with the run it was interesting to observe hundreds of tradesmen working hard adding a gazillion dollars of value to already fabulous harbourside homes and surviving a standoff with a goanna full of attitude on the trail near Chowder Bay. It was also very satisfying not being one of the motorists sitting in peak hour traffic on the Spit Bridge – I was in another world.