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GSWW: Great South West Walk FKT

After being unable to get into WA for the second year running (No Delirious WEST again). This year the FKT of choice was the Great South West Walk. Down in South Western Victoria, the 250km walk covers forest, the Glenelg River, the Southern Coast and the spectacular headlands just outside of Portland. The trip down to Portland in itself was an adventure as we hit a Roo just outside of Seymour. Writing off the car and I had an unplanned train & bus trip to Melbourne Airport to pick up a replacement hire car. So we had one day instead of two to scope out the track before I ran! All the scoping done, I was a bit more tired than I like but was at the Info Centre just before 4am Tuesday morning. A couple of photos in front of the signs & starting the new tracker I had hooked up for anyone that wanted to follow. I counted down the 4am start and mum filmed me running off. The initial run out of town, I think was nice. I mean you follow the coast line. But it was also dark, and I was

CCC: Central Coast Century Run FKT 2021

I was registered to do Lakes 100. A 100km trail race up near Hawks Nest, so had been training sand for a couple of months to handle its long sand sections. Unfortunately, Greater Sydney got thrown into lockdown the week before the race and it had to be postponed. So when you've been training for a flat sandy run, clearly the only alternative is to instead go for a technical hilly FKT! I started in the cold at 4:30 am with Tim, who wasn't going for the FKT, but was aiming to complete the 100km (he made it 76km, the furthest he's ever run). Fortunately, the current lockdown rules don't limit the amount of exercise you can do AND this entire FKT route is within the lockdown zone. So it was on!! Speedy early morning section through the bush and streets, running past Bernhard at Pearl Beach (I was ahead of schedule), he then caught up to me at Warrah Trig. And the sun came up as we were hitting the sandy GNW trails on the way to the tip (sounds worst than it is... it's a