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Tea with medal |
I have a confession to make. Last year I entered the City to South fun run and was
unable to race. My daughter Caitlyn took my place and set a cracking pace resulting in me qualifying for a red bib this year (sub 75min). Standing at the start line this morning with the other red runners around me was a little overwhelming. I was a green runner (sub 90min) in disguise and out of my comfort zone. The others from our ‘Breakfast on the Run’ trio were back in the sensible green section. This was the serious end of the race pack. This is where Jon and Emma usually stand! Last checks of Garmans (which I don’t have), calf and thigh stretches (which I did do), readjustment of Skins (which I don’t have), and revisions of race plans (which I don’t have), and we were off. No walking or easing into this event. It was straight into a sprint up George Street in the city then a left turn across Victoria Bridge. No time for site seeing. I was merely trying to keep up with the mass. We wove through the Cultural Centre onto Montague road then looped onto the Go Between Bridge. The roads were all closed, so we remained on Coronation Drive then onto Gailey Road at Toowong. Was that seriously only a 6km marker? I think some green runners caught up with me on Sir Fred Schonell Drive and passed me in quick succession. Sir Fred’s wife, Eleanor loomed ahead, at least the bridge named after her. The 11km mark was after the Bridge on Gladstone road then a hill climb towards Dornoch Terrace. The last kilometre is a delightful descent on Hampstead Road to Musgrave Park for an exhausting personal best time. It is a very pretty run if you have energy to revel in the passing scenery.
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Breakfast board |
Runners sprinted to the finish line and we all assembled and made our way back up to Highgate Hill and the cutely named, Gertrude and Mabel Café, named after two streets on Highgate Hill. The endorphin highs of success remained in an elevated state as we selected our meals and marvelled in the plates as they arrived at the table. I soon discovered that, along with loving Greek for dinner, it is equally enchanting for Breakfast. A few of us ordered the breakfast board of bacon, 8 min egg, loukaniko (a very tasty pork based herb sausage) and fasolatha (white beans and sweet salsa), avocado, blistered tomatoes and roasted mushrooms with a side of hollandaise. Each component of the board was delicious and is in my top 5 breakfast meals so far. Jess ordered the avocado, cherry tomato, buffalo mozzarella, basil and black bread with 8 minute egg, drizzled with olive oil. Jon, my fellow red runner who disappeared at the start to remain at the front of the pack had 8 minute eggs (cooked long enough for him to have run more than two kilometres!), bacon, blistered tomatoes, bread and house made hollandaise. Did I mentioned how delicious the hollandaise was?.
Gertrude and Mabel Café is a special location to share a meal with friends. Kalí̱ órexi̱
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Jess's choice |
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Bacon and eggs |
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