Monday 19 July 2010
The Gold Coast .....
Surfer's Paradise, Gold Coast south of Brisbane - I've never been to Las Vegas but it had the feeling of a Vegas 'by the sea' about it! Ironically, I was there to attend a conference about adaptation to climate change, but there didn't seem to be too much of this happening locally as the spires of new 40 storey hotels and apartment blocks ribboned the coastline. But this is to take nothing away from the beach - I did a gorgeous 80min run in the dark along the sand with the southern cross glistening overhead, and then dived into the waves at the finish .....
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I suppose readers are beginning to see a certain 'running' pattern to Patrick's journal? Not only has he managed to run pretty much everyday of the whole trip and thereby explored all sorts of out-of-the-way places but he has also found all sorts of monuments to 'great' runners en route...the blackdown hills in Devon are going to seem a bit small/tame!
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