A nice late start, shorter distance and flat route. Perfect way to ease into the weekend. It was good to see a brand new face too - welcome to the Dean Street Hillbillies, Allen! I hope you enjoyed the run!
We were a small group today, just Josh, Allen and myself. The guys set a blistering pace, and I was quite proud of myself for keeping up. A good tempo-run for me! It has definitely paid off over the last couple of months, trying to keep up with the faster guys - my race times are coming down quite nicely now. Thanks guys!! I'll dedicate my next PB to the Dean Street Hillbillies!!
Our route this morning was fairly ordinary, if you can call running in beautiful Cape Town 'ordinary'.
We started out at Great Westerford as usual. Hit our only real 'hill' going up Klipper Road (such a small little hill, poor thing!). Sped along tree-lined Newlands Avenue, then caught our breath going down the M3. Meandered through Claremont until we reached the back of Cavendish, dashed over Main road (nicely timed with the traffic lights!) and past Newlands Cricket.
From there we made a bee-line to our water point - a thirsty 7km into the run. After a refreshing drink we headed off again in the direction of home.
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For those who didn't join us this morning, you missed some really cool (?strange?) looking shoes!!! Vibram FiveFingers. Aka Barefoot shoes. Aka 'Dino feet' (coined by a friend of mine!)
Strange as they may look, they're actually very comfy, and supposed to be pretty good for you - more 'natural' than cushioned running shoes. I'm testing that theory, starting slow of course (this morning's 9km was the furthest I've run in them at one time). But hopefully this will be just the 'medicine' needed to cure my long history running injuries. Wish me luck...
A warm welcome to Allen, and I hope this will be the first of many:) Angela, I have to catch up to you distance-wise with the 'dino feet'.. they are really good for the feet. See you at the top of Red Hill on Saturday and good luck!
ReplyDeleteAs for the rest of the Hillbillies, we shall see you on Tuesday, if there anything left of us after Saturday:))