Well that was fun. We got really lucky with the weather - sunny ☀ and the perfect temperature for running ?♀️
The first section which is the Koonung Creek Trail including the majority of uphill got ripped off like a band-aid. In order to be honest with some frosty patches in the shadows after a really cold night, it was simply too cold to stop. Then at around the half-way mark we had a longer break. Running and snacks. Basically a snackathlon. This is why we do this, right? After gaining new strengths we bopped down the Mullum Mullum Trail which turns seamlessly into the Yarra Trail ... unfortunately that is made of a lot of gravel and a loose wheel-nut on the pram started to make us bonkers with its rattling ?
You're pleased to hear we tuned out the rattling and didn't go up each others' throat. The last 20 km were uneventful, we started to count down the km to go and eventually crossed the little bridge at the Burke Road Billabong.
Yay to us! This was the first ultra for Winter and the second one for Emil (we added a couple of km to and from the start). Now hopefully someone will have a crack at beating our time ?