I can say that I've successfully completed the worlds largest "fun" run. The annual City2Surf run took place yesterday. It's a 14K run from downtown Sydney along the coast and ends at Bondi Beach for me and 79,999 of my closest friends. I was rather unprepared for the run seeing as though the longest I've run in about a year was 2 miles and I'm pretty sure I walked half of that. But I will say that the CrossFit program I've been doing for the past 6 weeks is definitely helping. I was able to power through the whole race, including the 2K long Heartbreak Hill, and finish with a respectable time. Now I don't know exactly what time that is because results won't be posted until Wednesday. Again, the technology here is a little behind.
Here's a rather choppy video of the start to get an idea of what 80,000 people look like. They sent everyone off in 5 different waves and this is just the start of the elite group. There were still 79,000 people to come. I don't know exactly what time I crossed the start line because I was trying to get around all the people walking already, but it was probably somewhere around 18 minutes after this group.
The post race party was pretty lacking though. After the finish, there was Gatorade and water, but no food and worst of all, no beer stand. Next year I'm going to have to weasel my way into one of the corporate tents on the beach. I certainly didn't let that stop me though. I met up with a few friends and we did a little day drinking along the beach in Bondi and followed that up with dinner at a restaurant on the beach in Coogee. It was a family style dinner with 5 or 6 courses and all the beer and wine you could drink. Needless to say we're all feeling a little fuzzy headed today.
If I can find more pictures of the run, I'll try to post them. And if any one's looking for a good get in shape program, I'd highly recommend finding a crossfit gym.
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