Sixth day, sixth friend, sixth run

This afternoon I had the pleasure of running with my orienteering/AR friend, Nicholas. Nic is an incredibly accomplished orienteer (there's not a junior or senior trophy in the country without his name on it - a stack of consecutive years!) and adventure racer (Team Cyanosis) with numerous wins locally and a good smattering of international events under his belt.

We met at the Exercise and Nutrition Centre in Rivonia, where we were having our Adventure Racing Club evening later on. From Kinetic (nickname for the place as it used to be called the Sandton Biokinetic Centre, owned by adventure racers Heidi and Stephan Muller who race as Team Kinetic), we ran up and over to the Braamfontein Spruit - first heading South and then crossing the spruit to head North.

Super weather (the threatening rains stayed away) and a fabulous run. The vegetation along the spruit is pretty grassy as the result of the good rains and conditions. Lots of daisy-type yellow flowers out too.

And purple flowers too!

We logged a good dose of urban trail running and contemplated how incredible this city of Jo'burg would be if they'd thought just a little bit ahead to preserve our highveld rivers (not just confine to canals and cover with roads), leaving 100m either side for trails and recreation. Most of our possible green belts are fenced in so they can barely be used... *sigh*

We made it back to Kinetic in good time, tucking into a tasty stir-fry dinner.

Nic - super run, super route, super chatting. Thank you friend.