On Sunday I ran my first ever race! (well, since I was 11 and at school…).
This was a HUGE deal for me and just to make it super exciting it was a mountain race called The Gutbuster. It basically follows the fence around the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary and is 11.8km long.
The first half; totally lives up to it’s name!
It was a full on effort and I loved it. Although I did have heat stroke for a few hours afterwards which made the work I had to do for work difficult.
I was number 406 and my goal was to get home before lunch time.
Of course that was when I thought my start time woudl be 8:30am… by 930am I am having to readjust my goal. However I was fully surprised at halfway (The Windturbine that looks out over Wellington city) to find that with mostly downhill left to go I had only used up almost an hour!
I ended up getting back in just under two hours and I am fully impressed with myself.
(official time 1:53.59) No t-shirt, but I did get a banana and a frisbee on the finish line LOL!
This was a HUGE deal for me and just to make it super exciting it was a mountain race called The Gutbuster. It basically follows the fence around the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary and is 11.8km long.
The first half; totally lives up to it’s name!
It was a full on effort and I loved it. Although I did have heat stroke for a few hours afterwards which made the work I had to do for work difficult.
I was number 406 and my goal was to get home before lunch time.
Of course that was when I thought my start time woudl be 8:30am… by 930am I am having to readjust my goal. However I was fully surprised at halfway (The Windturbine that looks out over Wellington city) to find that with mostly downhill left to go I had only used up almost an hour!
I ended up getting back in just under two hours and I am fully impressed with myself.
(official time 1:53.59) No t-shirt, but I did get a banana and a frisbee on the finish line LOL!
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