saturday alan, brad and myself set off extra early to take two cars and walk the 3 major mountains in a row. the weather was perfect, cool to start with then heated up and cooler at the end.
the moutains were mt nimmel, mt fairweather and pages pinnacle (total of 26km) not long in distance but hard on the legs. it takes it out on your heart on the ascents and the knees on the descents.
we met a few teams out on the track (young and exuberant team which went past us very quick, and the toowoomba trihards (4 women) who were down for the long weekend putting in heaps of km's and seeing the track for the first time). we also met a team (whom one of their members was struggling from dehydration, so brad kindly gave him a spare bottle of water and i gave a bag of lollies). you have to be so careful making sure you have heaps of fluid, i usually go through at least 4L.
alan and brad did well and just glided up the hills, i really struggled with mt fairweather, which i find to be the hardest it is only 1km but it is straight up and no real rests.
brad got to see another snake, its great he is out the front as he protects us by letting us know in a loud voice (usually high pitched) that a snake is there. we had two breaks along the way and finished at 3pm, which was really good.
the thing we look forward to the most is cold ginger beers at the car and coffee and cake at Polly's cafe, we have gotten to know betty really well and she is so interested in how we are training.
we also got to meet doug (the organiser) and his wife hiking down pollys hill, so was great to have a quick chat on how the organising of the event is going.
next week i am doing mt maroon with the brisbane bushwalkers, its supposidly quite hard so hope i can keep up!
You go girl! And keep away from those snakes. Sounds like it's getting less challenging with all the training you're doing!
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