Running for 89 years

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This page was last edited on Monday, 26 July 2004

It's true you can't live here by chance,
you have to do and be, not simply watch
or even describe.  This is the city of action,
the world headquarters of the verb
─ "The Active Voice," Lauris Edmond

The Triple Peaks runners were treated to the best part of the day: blue skies above grass crisp with hoar frost, iced-over puddles, heavily frosted cars in Ngaio, grand harbour vistas from the relatively wind-free Skyline Ridge. Spring is on the way: only five weeks till September and eight weeks till the Equinox; and over the next fortnight, we are transitioning from cross country back to the roads.

The sign warning us of goat culling on Rangoon Heights made me hope the hunter could easily tell the difference between a mountain goat and an old mountain runner.  Funny how every time I headed downhill, I thought I'll include Wrights, no problem, and then that thought was dismissed going up every hill. Also I made a resolution to do better research on optimal routes between peaks. 

He who was lost was found - Ian Ewing that is - couldn't resist the lure of home coming down Raroa Rd. Matyas James didn't come to the clubrooms, but managed to knock off the peaks anyway. A number of runners included Kaukau and Johnston as well ... don't they know when enough is enough? After circling lost in Wilton Bush for a while, Richard Downing decided to run the Auckland Marathon in October and make this his first long run in that campaign. At least the marshals in Auckland will tell him where  to go.