So we entered the Men's Health Hout Bay Trail run the other day. When I say 'we' I'm referring to the relatively mobile members of the villa. We were forced to sub bundy for limpy, but just as well, as you don't want a teammate experiencing heart failure high up in the mountains somewhere.

The run was absolutely awesome. It was more of a hike actually in the first leg. You can only run so far uphill, then you have to take it easy else you'll run out of steam for the rest of the race. I did the first leg, which runs from the Hout Bay yacht club up over the Koggelberg and accross to Suikerbossie. We set off at 7am.

The weather was pretty overcast and Suikerbossie was covered in thick mist. As we neared the top of the Koggelberg we ran through the cloud line. I had to shed a few layers and it was piping hot up there. There were a few queues on top for checkpoints, which allowed some time to check out the view down both sides of the mountain. The traverse was also pretty wild. We almost had to crawl along some paths to get through thick vegetation and part of the run is down the stream so the rocks are quite slipperly. Down the back of Koggelberg there were also 2 rope sections for which we had to take out time going down.

I did take over 2 hours to do my leg, which was a lot longer than expected. I was relatively unfit tho, and the queues did slow me down a bit. I think I passed on to attman at about 9:15.

Anways. Was checking out the pictures on the event which were on http://www.sports4u.co.za. Found a smashing one of this young fellow, clearly enjoying the event, and clearly posing for the camera. However, I can't seem to upload the stchupod pic for some reason. Will keep trying, maybe the issue has something to do with the work firewall.