Hilly Trail Run 18km incl 5km Tempo

Sunday morning group trail run of 18km at Goorooyarroo and Mulligans Flat. It's a very large electric fenced nature reserve that protects smaller marsupials from predators. It's one of my favourite places to run, we used to run here often. Despite the heavy overnight rain the wide sand and clay trails were in good shape.

The run started slowly out to a farm shed relic, importantly with toilet. A few turned around at the shed. Jen and I ran further to make it an 18km out and back. With 7km to go I ran a 5km hilly tempo run at 3:35-4:10/km. The last 2km were all down hill.

Next two days will be running commutes to work and back, 17km each day. Next set on Wednesday, some 500m efforts to get my leg speed turning over again.

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