Week 5 of 18 20km | Easy | trail It was a constellation of CoolRunners down in the Royal National Park this morning. Blkbox collected me this morning and I had the pleasure of meeting Beki for the first time. It was great to also see Sydney Gal who was also in tow who I hadn't seen since before the C2S. We arrived down at Audley around 7.00am and were shortly joined by Owl, Ellie80 and Running Angel in the carpark. Nice to see them as well. Yesterday I was trying to look after my achilles by icing and rubbing with voltaren gel whilst keeping it wrapped up tightly in an elastic bandage. That seemed to work good as I hopped out of bed this morning hardly feeling any niggle. The Royal National Park is a wonderful place to run and it was a real pleasure running along the fire trail which follows the Hacking River. We all took off at a easy pace and chatted happily along the way. We we joined at about 5/6km mark by CR Moh who we had passed earlier in Princes Highway. Moh joined us until the end of Lady Carrington and continued up to Waterfall. Nice guy too. Soon Owl came to grief when she tripped over one of those jumping sticks that you see every now and then which brought her down A over T. Owl bravely continued with blood trickling down her leg. Soon Ellie was the second casualty of the day who needed to walk for a while because of a bung knee. Soon after Beki and RA turned around as their programs only allowed them a slightly shorter run today. BlckBox, Sydney Gal, Moh and the Gronkster continued to the turnaround and upped the pace to the climb to the gates. After a rest we headed on the return leg and ran at 10km pace for the next 5kms or so. It felt nice to open the throttle up a bit and the three of us scooted along nicely. We finished the day in about 2 hours and I'm feeling great right now. No niggles to speak of with the achilles feeling just fine. Just hoping that it feels just as good later on once it cools down a bit. I've got some pics to upload, but Blogger is being a bitch right now so I'll try a bit later. Taking the tribe down to Bronte for a dip this arvo after a little picnic in the park. Happy days. Mood: --->

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