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A run towards breakfast

I was up bright and early this morning – 4:30AM to be precise. My cousin had invited us to head over to her place for breakfast at 9AM and I decided that I would run over and work up an appetite. Truth be told I don’t need a run to work up an appetite but I figured it would help burn off the Easter eggs. ;)   My cousin lives on the other side of Auckland in Titirangi so I would be running to a place I’d never run before.

I left the house just after 5:30ish while it was still dark and headed out towards the waterfront. I took a bit of a blurry photo of a big passenger liner that was docked outside the Hilton hotel:

I had to do an emergency bathroom stop in the Viaduct area. Fortunately there was a public restroom available so public indecency charges were avoided.

The sun was starting to come up as I headed through the marina. I ran under the harbour bridge that is in the background:

I headed back towards the North Western motorway via Ponsonby as I knew there was a bike track that travelled alongside the motorway that I was keen to run along. After a few false starts I found the entrance to it and headed down it.

The run was pretty uneventful up until the last ten km or so as the gradient started to trend upwards.  I must admit it was a real struggle and my pace slowed right down.  I finally reached the high point and thought that I would be able to blast down the last two km as the road was heading down pretty steeply but it was actually almost worse than climbing up as the impact on my tired legs was rather jarring.

Anyway, I finally arrived (a little late) and sat down to a fabulous breakfast of croissants and hot cross buns.  The easter eggs after were just the icing on the cake!

This was my longest run ever at 31.14 km (almost 20 miles) at an average pace of 6:45 min per km.  Those hills really killed my average pace today but I was going for distance not time. Overall a good cross Auckland run. I was very glad that my wife had driven the car there and I didn’t have to run back as well!

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