Long Run with Black Mountain ascent

Terrible weather this morning with rain, strong winds and a passing cold front. I stuck to the bitumen for the first half, bike path down to lake, with the wind to the base of Black Mountain, ascent and return via bush trails. All up just over 90 minutes.

The climb up Black Mountain on road, 2.7km with average gradient 8.9%. When I was a cyclist I would do time trials up this road in 9 minutes. I was almost twice that time today.

House 610m asl, 1km from home 650m asl, lake 577m asl, Black Mtn summit 812m asl, home 610m asl.

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