Street-O @ Lillydale Lake

Another gut-busting run around the hills at Lillydale Lake. I set off too fast (not warmed up), which is unusual for me, but chose an efficient route to get around all the controls that I wanted to.

Except for a detour to a high wooden fence that obviously wasn't able to be circumnavigated - which it looked like you could on the map - so I had to go back the way I'd come.

And another "short cut" across some lumpy grass and a clay-filled ditch which turned my shoes yellow. Pete later said that the same clay ditch actually sucked one of his shoes off!

And some deep mud near control #20 which added to the clay and the stones already on my shoes to add extra weight to what I was already trying to lug around!

Back 1¼ minutes late, and there was no way I could have pushed myself to go any faster. I had nothing left.

Distance	Avg pace	Avg HR
9.7 km	6:07 /km	165 bpm (87%)

that 87% must be pretty close to a record high... so much for learning to run slow, lol.



Nice to see Rudolf turn up this afternoon too, coming in for a perfectly timed finish.

postscript: I didn't lose any placings because of my tardiness (phew!). I was 8 points clear of the next person, and I lost 6 for coming in late, so I'm still ahead.