Portsea Twilight

6.75 kms, 42 minutes.

Ran with Courtlylove for most of the way, although she would surge ahead passing people, and I would get stuck behind some slower object. I would catch her on hills and on the sand, she would race away on the downhills and during our final sprint (ha ha) to the finish. Nice to actually run *with* someone, as I normally run alone, even within a big group.



Happy with the way I ran. Only a couple of very short walking breaks, and I did the hills and sand easily. High tide was at 17:30, so by 19:00 we were still on soft sand, although 1000 pairs of feet before me had packed it down nicely at the water's edge.

However, I think there's room for a PB next year. I alternated between feeling held-back and oh-god-I-want-to-stop, and would have liked to crack 40 minutes. Still plenty of gas in the legs - when I put the foot down to pass people, I could surge easily (except for that final mad sprint!); and I was breathing easily the whole way. Average pace 6:19.

Lots of Cool Runners at the run; and Chilliman, the Lost Boys, and I had drinks and fish'n'chips in Sorrento afterwards. Got kicked out of the pub(!)... because Little Lostboy was under-age, NOT because we were misbehaving. Home by the stroke of midnight.

Elevation

Total elevation change: +256m. Interesting to see that we actually went below sea level at one stage. No wonder some runners got wet feet. :-)

Some interesting stats from MB:

	Total	Ascent	Descent	Flat
Distance	6.75	2.81	2.57	1.36
Time	42:40	18:48	15:48	8:13
Pace	6:19	6:41	6:05	6:02