Little more training

Friday night is meant to be 80% chance of thunder storms and heavy rain, again.  So like the past 3 times I have been camping I thought why not, lets do sleep in a storm!  A group of 6 guys, ranging from 18 yrs old to around 50 yrs old all departed for an overnighter in Blackwood VIC.

Sorry - no pictures.

After staying up till 1 am around the fire we woke this morning at 7am, had bacon, eggs & toast over the fire whilst the rain bucketed down.  I had brought a large shelter tent so we stayed dry while we ate.   By the time we had packed all the tents up, and made our way to the start of the trail it was about 9:10am.  The rain had stopped....for now.

We took a combination of tracks through the Blackwood area which totalled 13km's of varying inclines & declines and a couple river crossing.  A very brisk 3 hour hike including some jogging on flats to challenge ourselves and have a little fun.  Although the daily km's is much less than we expect to do on the Australian Alps walking track and I had no pack on it was still good to get out in the pounding rain and do some km's.  It was less pressure on the body but a good mind tester to see how excited I would be if it rained all day & still had to press on.

i wouldn't want 2 or 3 days in a row like that when we go away next year.