a Sunday running chronicle · North Head
Chapter Two · Spring 2026
chapter two: September to November on the loop — and, for the first time, backwards.
North Head · Fairy Bower · September – November 2026
Thirteenth of September · four, the wrong way round.
Spring opened by turning the course around. Same loop, same wall, same coffee — the hills simply arrived first.
Four starters and a new idea: run it backwards. The log-keeper’s report came in at two minutes to nine, unpunctuated and accurate — quite a challenging start with the hills up front — and then the line of the morning: Rob completed the entire course gazing at Cockatoo Rock. Miles, Rob, Claude and Jane by the water afterwards, and the first time on The Clock for the reverse course, which keeps its own board so nobody has to argue about which way round a time was run.
Next Sunday’s entry lands here after the run — the shot, the line, the headcount. Race days get pages of their own under Events.
Same loop, the other way. Still the same argument about the swim.