Am in Dunkeld on the first leg of my #running#vacation in which I hope to explore parts of South Australia that I've never been to. And visit some wineries along the way of course. And #pyconau in the middle too!
Photo shows where one of tomorrow's Peaks And Trails 20km event mountains should be, if it wasn't for all the cloud... 😂
Dunkeld put on glorious weather again for Peaks and Trails #trailrunning. Such a fun run with some challenging and exciting climbs and descents mixed with easy going trails for gentle #running in a lovely location.
The view from my accom at Cape Nelson, front and back. Majestic AF blinkyboi and spinnybois 🤩
And a visitor too (she had a little one in the pouch too ☺️)
Explored the Beachport Conservation Park #trailrunning a 22k sometimes wet (where the "trail" just leads off into the water), mostly sandy (not a fan of running in loose sand) trail that seemed more a wish than a track at times 😅
Saw some lovely sights, the weather was perfect, and it was very different to my usual trails.
Long drive today to get myself up to McLaren Vale. Roads were very quiet ☺️ and I got a surprise ferry trip too!
Did some recovery #running along the Shiraz Trail through the vineyards which was very relaxing. Followed by some recovery tasting of Shiraz - this is a #vacation after all🍷
Final #trailrun before Adelaide and a few days of #pyconau conference. Did a #run around the landmarks and lookouts of Onkaparinga River National Park. Saw many of the locals having brunch too 🤩 #running#vacation will resume next week.
Day one of the #pyconau interlude of my #vacation found me enlisted by the A/V team to help out with the streaming/recording! I've been involved in many Australian PyCons but never had the chance to volunteer with A/V before, so this was a long-standing wish fulfilled, and it was as fun and interesting as I expected it to be!
Took a full rest day from #running, back to it tomorrow though 🏃
Today's post #pyconau#vacation#trailrun was a 20k out and back along the coast near Victor Harbour going into the Newland Head Park. A lovely track, lots of variation and scenery 😊
Today my #vacation found me in Naracoorte. Went on an awesome cave tour and did some #trailrunning around the caves park to see the above ground sights. Some really lovely, gentle singletrack which was what I needed after yesterday 😁
My #vacation gets ever closer to its final destination as I find myself in Nhill, and do some #trailrunning in the Little Desert. Beautiful weather for a run and occasional pause in the scrub.
Today I decided to stop over at a couple of places. Firstly a little #walk in the #bush at Horseshoe Bend in the Wimmera River at Dimboola. It was just me, all the birds and some roos ☺️
Next stop today was a spot of #trailrunning up and around Mount Arapiles.
The climb was fun, and the descent even more fun (more on that in the next post).
The view was cool too, over basically flat farm land as far as you can see, except for the Grampians in the distance. Which I'll be at tomorrow for Sunday's Wonderland run, the final stop in my #running#vacation
ALSO there's this adorable little town called Natimuk that I happened to stop in for refreshments (very friendly milk bar proprietor) after the above run at Mt Arapiles and they have this amazing park with this sculpture and a pizza oven (with wood supply) 🤩
Big Lost Thing vibes from the sculpture.
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