Sphinx Head

Saturday June 12, 2010 (Trail –12km)
Bobbin Head Rd early in the morning is cycling central. I can see why it is so popular with cyclists. I ran on the road for a few slow warm up kilometres before the rest of the group arrived. Even at my running speed I was almost quicker than some cyclists coming up Bobbin Head Rd- it is a grinding, tough almost 4km climb out of Berowra Creek. The short warm-up run was enough to convince me that the pain in the hip is only there when I walk not when I run. So I set off with the rest of the group to run the 10km circuit of the Sphinx Track coming back up on the Bobbin Head track. I have fond memories of doing this circuit as a night training run for Trailwalker. At night it would take us about 1hr45min. Today the 10km circuit was completed in around 1hr12minutes - with a race to the finish once the trail flattened and opened out. The beautiful sight of the mist over the river surrounded by steep forested slopes was worth the effort.