A Jolly Glorious Run

For a long time we've done our New Year's Eve run at Mt Coot-tha but for 2005 we decided to run Mt Nebo instead so it was almost back to the scene of Tuesday's crime. We were meeting up at 5am at Jolly's Lookout so this meant a 3.50am alarm after getting to bed after midnight .... and after a little too much food and wine.

This was a road run to Mt Glorious and back, 28k of hills. I think the hills are as tough as those on Tuesday's trail, maybe worse, but luckily the weather was much kinder. And we were all carrying much more water.

There were quite a few Neville No-Shows, just ten starters. Nick hung back and kept we girls amused on the out journey. Clairie and MJ turned back after 10k and the rest of us forged on to Glorious where the other guys were waiting outside the cafe. AB had just brought a giant bottle of water and passed on what he didn't want to us to top our bottles up. He also offered us a swig of his home made gu - mmmmm :-)

On the way back Nick sped up and ran with the guys, and a few kms in Fiona headed inland on a bush trail and that left Karen and I running back together. Aside from us there was just the odd car, motorbike or cyclist on the road. A number of times we slowed down and just took in the magnificent scenery. It really doesn't get much better that this - the peace and beauty of bush running but with bitumen underfoot :-)