Greyton Trail Run

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Greyton Classic

The day finally arrived! We had been so looking forward to spending a night in Greyton and then competing in the Greyton Classic MTB and Trail Run challenge.

Traffic was bad. Like intensely bad so we eventually pulled over to the One-Stop for a Wimpy dinner and waited it out.

Shortly before 8pm we pulled in at Zebra Moon Hikers Hostel....a bit of roughing it for us all tonight. We found our dorm and then headed off to Rockhoppers to register and get our numbers.

By now we were all lus for something hot n sweet so we ducked into a cute little bistro for coffee and malva pud. Nom


By 9pm we were back in our dorms unrolling sleeping bags, filling hot water bottles and getting our kit ready for the morning.

I have to say - sleeping in a bag is an acquired skill! I havent done it for YEARS but thankfully I was warm, toasty and got a few zzzz's despite the noise of the other hostel dwellers. :-/


Race day dawned and it was just perfect! We hit the trail at 1020am - the route was easy terrain with very few hills and hardly any technical single trail bits. We did the first 3km's FAST and I must say I was suffering by the 5km mark. The water stand was a welcome sight and I am not sure if more went down my throat or over my head!



Insanely beautiful scenery on the trail run route

Around the 7km mark we simply HAD to stop and take some pictures as the landscape was simply too beautiful to ignore. The joy of trail running is not in the time but in absorbing your surroundings - something that can easily be lost if you are too competitive....



The race was incredible and the euphoria at the end is pretty epic but my favourite thing of all is sharing this experience with people who mean so much to me.


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