The annual 48 kilometre relay from Harcourt to Bendigo is on tomorrow. Looks like I'm doing the 'Hogan's Road' leg of 8.6 kilometres. Never run that before, but some of the others are horrendous.
Two years ago I ran the third leg which was five kilometres on a flat road then five kilometres uphill, all the way. Last year I had the water-race leg which was a fascinating experience. It runs along an open concrete 'water race' which is basically a sluice - they used to call them aqueducts in roman days - to carry water from a catchment area to Bendigo, the only city in Australia NOT TO HAVE BEEN BUILT ON A WATER SOURCE! Isn't that amazing? They built a city with no source of water! The reason is that Bendigo grew up around the gold diggings in the Gold Rush of the nineteenth century. It was a 'dig for gold' area rather than a 'pan for gold' area like Ballarat.
Right. History out of the way. So last year I ran along this acqueduct thing that they open up occasionally to send thousands of gigalitres of water into Bendigo. T. is running this leg tomorrow.
The relays end at the Bendgo Athletics Centre and then afterwards we are having a giant afternoon tea at L's house in Bendigo.
Lookin' forward to it.
Here's a picture of T. in the last race two weeks ago at Bundoora. The threatening rain clouds did not eventuate, the sun came out and it was quite a nice day despite the cold southerly.
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