silvery moon

For reasons which we don’t need to go into at this point, I was up, wide awake and positively buzzing with energy, for lack of a better word, at 4am this morning. There was zero chance of getting back to sleep, and as the alarm was set to go at 5, I decided to head out for the daily perambulation an hour early.

Interesting decision….

It’s way dark at 4am. And cold, and very quiet, and did I mention dark? But, you know what, this morning those were all good things.

I set off for a solid 20k-er, including large swathes of the Dandenong creek trail, armed with a head torch thing, which is uber-useful when caving, climbing mountains and scaring loitering teenager thugs. To my surprise the torch was pretty redundant as there was a full-size, full moon blazing away like there was no tomorrow.

In fact, I spent most of the run heading directly towards the moon, which was hovering obligingly in the south-east, lighting the way.

So it ended up as 20k in just under 90 minutes. V. satisfactory.

Now, if only I could get me some sleep….

Still more on RFTK
If you haven’t seen this yet, don’t wait, GO to the heralsunonline site where they have searchable video of everyone crossing the finishing line last Sunday. If you follow the prompts through to the 15.2 (alleged) km race and plug in number 2760, you might, if you’re very careful, see a sweaty JRuns crossing the line. I’m wearing a black singlet and I look at my watch just after finishing.

A v. groovy site.