4 and a half hours north of Brisbane

Grit the teeth - nearly there!

So back to our exploration of international Parkruns! Not far south of the Tropic of Capricorn is Hervey Bay and the local parkrun is along the seafront very helpfully shaded by trees for most of it's length. Despite the heat and humidity I managed my fastest time for a park run for almost a year - this was Hervey Bay Parkrun number 80 and I was hopeful of beating the V60 previous record of 22 minutes - I did this comfortably and finished in 20.35, however so did the V60 runner 7 seconds in front of me. Will we be here next week to give it another go?

It's easy when you've got a bit of a tug.

Vicky and Lyndall tried the dog walking option - whether or not this improves performance seems to very much depend on the size of the dog. This picture is of Ruby a bit of an all sorts breed of puppy, at 10 months old she's willing but hasn't got much 'pull' yet! We are dog/cat sitting for a few days up here on the coast during the Easter weekend and it's a nice little holiday resort with fish and chips, wonderful beach and, for this week only......Lennon's Bros Circus one of the only travelling circuses left in Australia - how can we not take advantage?
Off to Fraser Island tomorrow - this is the largest sandbank in the world - 120K long from tip to tip. Just reading through the instructions for visitors - are they they being a bit OTT with their safety advice when they say 'running down the sand dunes can cause serious injury or death'! We shall see.