Day 75 - Uphill half, downhill half...

For a while I have wanted to try running up Mt Eden Road and then running the flat section towards Three Kings, but the uphill section has looked quite daunting.

So today I finally gave it a go. Got about 3/4 of the way up the slope to discover it was even longer than I thought and there was more uphill sections beyond the crest I could see from my street. Pushed through it and stopped a few times before the end of uphill but made it up and then crossed carefully (and still a car refused to stop at the pedestrian crossing) and ran back downhill, stopped at the dairy to pick up a Lotto ticket, then ran home again.

It was not raining when I left, it started raining lightly on Mt Eden Road, started pouring down on the downhill stretch., was drenched when I got to the dairy, and thinned out to stop when I got home.

Bah!

Distance: 1.55 km
Time: 9:00
Average Speed: 10.4 (quite slower on the uphill half)
Soundtrack: Only Happy When It Rains (Irony Much?) - Garbage & Blow Me - P!nk & Suicide Blonde - INXS