In order to maintain fitness and to fight those cold winters night in Sydney, a lot of people turn to running as the sport of choice. In fact there's more than a few races on during this time and the most popular one is the Sydney City to Surf 14km run on the 2nd Sunday in August. This is quite an up and down course which includes what's known as "heartbreak hill".However before that there's a fairly flat fast course race a couple of weeks (July 22nd) before called the Sutherland to the Surf which is 11km long. Running this race was great preparation and I was quite happy to do it in under 51mins.
I thought I was fully prepared for the race but one thing I hadn't factored into the equation was the weather. Every year the race day always seems to be spookily sunny and this year was no exception but it was an amazing 26C - especially since it's still Winter. (The following Sunday it was raining hard all morning and was 15C!). The good news was that I beat my personal best by going under 70mins but my official time was 70min 19sec because the guy handing out bits of paper with your time at the finish must have run out of my time or he was getting ahead of himself. No point in making a fuss! However I managed to find someone who finished around my time and the video footage around their time shows me running under the clock at 69mins 57 secs. To see this
- Go here
- Select camera 1
- Wait until 69:57 and I'm under the finish line on the far left in black with a white baseball cap. You might want to pause it since by 69:59 I'm at the bottom left corner about to go out of shot!
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