6ft weekend!

Wow! What can I say. I havent written because I'm lazy, but I have managed to get running again without those injury problems coming back. I'm still not race fit but at least I'm running again.
So staying injury free the last few weeks I decided to run (not race) the 6ft track marathon. Now my lead up to this has been no training at all until around 3 weeks ago. I kinda had a goal of finishing in under 4:30 but really didn't care what I did. I've never ran this thing before so it's all new to me!
Anyway the weekend started with me driving out to Katoomba on Friday arvo. I had no accom booked & wanted to keep the cost low. So when I got there I booked into this pub. Was all good until they decided to have karaoke unitl 2am! but I woke up feeling okish. After a cold shower on a COLD morning I wake! Had some toast with honey for b'fast then drove to Catalina park where we all got a bus to the start. I was there quite early & not long later saw Matt & Amanda. That made the morning easier cause now I had a lift back & didn't have to worry about coming back on the bus.
Before long the place was getting quite crowded. I was stuck in wave 2 so after watching Adam & Matt take off in wave 1 I was itching to go!
We lined up & I was up the front & next thing we were off!
A few min later we were going down these bloody slippery steep stairs. I just wanted to get down alive but most people wanted to take the lead. After I down those things it was all good. I just cruised along deciding to make this my weekly long run & not race it.

I won't go through the whole race but I got to cox's river in 1:14ish feeling really good. I swam across that & the water was great! Then the hills started. I ran the whole way except for the aid stations where I walked through. There was no hill's I walked on. I was happy with that effort alone!
I was feeling the whole way except for the last 2km of down hill. That's when I found it all tough! Anyway I might race it next year & see how I go. I finished in 68th place overall in 4:24ish. So for a long weekend run with no training except for the last 3weeks I was really happy.
I found out Matt came 2nd overall in 3:26ish! That's just unreal!
Mel (Matt's dad) was fantasic buying me a beer! That went down like magic.
I walked down to the water hole & found Matt, Amanda cooling down. Also saw Adam & Steve who did pretty good finishing in 3:55 & 3:56. The water was so bloody cold I could only go leg deep!
We hung around for the awards then made the MASSIVE treck up the stairs to get the car.
We picked up a couple of guy's from C'berra & took them Katoomba. Then off to the pub for a great feed!
We camped out & I slept so well waking up at 7am. After relaxing doing nothing for a few hours we decided to go for a bush walk. 2&1/2 later we sat at a cafe in Katoomba & ate. Then got a cab back to the car. My legs were gone at this stage. & thats about it. I said bye to Matt & Amanda & drove home. Feel pretty sore now though!