Another Taper Weekend

Hi Guys

I hope the weekend was good! We had a great run with Kent on Friday morning - his last being a single man!! We stuck to the Greenbelt - I must say I ran this EXTRA carefully because could you imagine the embarrassment of being this "Mountain Man" and falling over in the mud of Greenbelt in front of Triathletes- hahahaha - I would never live that down!!

Saturday - a bit hung over from the wedding the night before - I found myself on Vlakkenberg with the usual gang (minus Andrew who was honing his downhill skills at Elephants Eye) and about 20 upstart trail runners (incl. kids, dogs etc etc). It was good fun. We ran ahead to bag the 2 Vlakkenberg Peaks, taking us that much closer to closing the 32/33 peak chapter, and then caught up to the rest of the pack. Carla seems to be grasping trails quickly and from what I saw she looked very comfortable. We ran ahead of the pack to go and check out the actual Manganese mine (Ive been on the path so many times but never to the actual mine). It was awesome to see. Back to the path and then to try catch up to the pack again. We all finished at East Fort - A great run!!

Sunday - 2 peaks left of the 32/33. Lions Head and Signal Hill. Ian, Andrew, JT, Tony, Ryan Otto and I took off from the Lions Head Car Park. We pretty much hiked up to the top. AWESOME up top!!! WE looked down on a blanket of cloud. Lions Head is really one of the most underated peaks from a view perspective. We trotted down the peak - got into to the car - hahahaahaha and drove to the top of signal hill. A 50m walk and dunt da da 33 Peaks complete. I think Andie is going to smash Vlakkenberg on Tues with JT then we can send in all our photos!

:)

R