Thursday trails

Couldn't get up, so was resigned to running at lunch.

After a tip from Mister G (flowing on from a whinge about hating running on treadmills), I wandered down to the gym and headed off to Smoothey Park, next to the rail line between St Leonards and Wollstonecraft. A path leads from Russell Street and hooks into the trail near the footbridge, which runs along Berry Creek into Gore Cove.

The trail is narrow single-track, and quite 'technical', with rocks, roots, variations in surface and elevation, and plenty of branches. Apart from a fern in the eye early in, it was good fun.

The track comes out near the Berry Island reserve, so I did a loop of the trail there, and hooked back into the trail through Smoothey Park.

It was fairly slow, 5.1k or so in 31:31, but good fun and fairly intense.

I have a few gripes about life in Sydney, but being able to duck out of work and run on a genuinely technical trail during lunch hour is pretty cool.