It has been a while but on the 12th I took part in the City 2 Surf along with four workmates - only Jenny decided to run as she is a whole lot fitter than the rest of us - Carly didn't even own a pair of trainers. We met, along with about 64,000 other people in the city at 8am -the race was due to start at 9am but we wanted to get a good position - Karen didn't want to get stuck behind all the Mums and prams!! The best bit was that the weather was brilliant - the City 2 Surf effect apparently - it is always a glorious day - I had to put my factor 30 on. After the elite runners took off and after the "fun runners" (don't know how much fun it is running 14km) we were allowed to go - as we had registered so late we had to go in the "back of the pack" group. We started 20 minutes after the elite runners who finish around the 40 minute mark meaning they were half way there before we had even started!!

The gun sounded and we walked round the corner to the top of the hill that marked the start and looked out on a sea of people - it was a pretty amazing site.




Along the way we were entertained by various sites - bands playing at the side of the road, people dressed up, people dressed down


and some beautiful houses - City 2 Surf takes a route through some of Eastern suburbs which are some of the nicest places to live in Sydney - water views and only about 10 minutes to the city!


After three hours - less 20 minutes for our start time and about 30 minutes for a loo stop - we arrived into Bondi and the motivation we had to keep going . . . the corporate tents with food, drink, entertainment and masseuses!!

Colin and the kids had been at Bondi for a while and were enjoying the sand. We decided to stay at the beach for a while as the buses to get back into the city were chock-a block. Adam really enjoyed playing in the surf but Emily wasn't so pleased and she kept running away



It was a really fun day and the walk wasn't too bad - Heartbreak hill was quite bad - like Rottenrow in Glasgow at parts but not so bad - Colin thinks that we might all do the run next year!