17MR&MC

It was a Seventeen Mile Rocks weekend

This was the scene that greeted Michelle and I when we arrived on Saturday morning. The camera phone really doesn't do it justice. The mist was rising slowly off the water and the sun was being filtered by the fog. The light was gorgeous!

We celebrated the fact that we revisited our Seventeen Mile Rocks via Oxley route without any problems and much faster than when we did it previously. The difference was that, in Oxley, we turned on to Ardoyne Road avoiding that hill on Clivedon Ave. The trade-off is there is a smaller hill on Ardoyne and then a long-ish climb on S.M.R road. Worth it, I reckon!

 Note the arm warmers. Definitely a bit of a chill to the early mornings now.

Total kms: 44

Sunday riding and Katina and I rode up Mount Coot-tha again. It is so beautiful up there with the birds and the morning forest sounds. I could just about hear them over the sounds of my own huffing and puffing. I tested out my new leg warmers and head/ear warmer. Very effective! Probably a bit too toasty for now but will definitely be needed as the mornings turn colder. I didn't get any runners passing me this time but I did have the Map My Ride app keep saying "workout paused...." "workout resumed" and I HADN'T STOPPED. Stupid bloody thing making me feel inadequate. Anyway we made it to the top - hooray! - and  here we are looking out over a misty Brisbane:

 We came all that way!

Afterwards, Katina headed off for a ride out to Jindalee and I headed back to West End. As I was heading home, I received this picture from what looks like Seventeen Mile Rocks...

 Looking FAB ladies!