Up on the Gold Coast for the Partners Retreat. Had some time to kill this morning so ran 28km. Set off from the Sheraton Mirage and ran all the way down the beach to Burleigh Heads (about 14km I guess in 63 minutes), had a drink and ran back. Got bored of running on the beach somewhere south of Northcliffe so joined the road and ran back on the pathway next to the beach. 2:05:30 in total. Extremely tired at the end, mainly through dehydration. I've drunk gallons this afternoon.
Some observations:
(a) Longest distance I've ever run in a straight line. How many people out there can beat 14km without turning a corner?
(b) Running in a straight line is very boring.
(c) It's very hard not to speed up when running in a straight line on a dead flat surface.
(d) Kept on thinking about Dave running 50km on the track. How on earth did he do it without going insane?
(e) There are lots of overweight, tanned blokes on the Gold Coast.
(f) There are not nearly so many attractive females as Queenslanders would have you believe.
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