The Eynesbury Half

Yesterday the plan was to run 23km. Since it can get a bit boring running the same areas, and also get hard to find such long routes, I thought it might be a good idea to have a run around the new Eynesbury estate.

We parked the car at Exford Primary School (Josh's school) and ran from there, heading down the main road to Eynesbury.
Once in the estate we just followed a few paths and turned into streets when we felt like it (note: most of the streets on the map above don't actually exist yet. I think we only saw Stage 1 and Stage 2.) We found a few nice paths that followed the edge of the golf course. We ended up doing 2 laps around the estate following these paths, plus a few detours to look at things of interest (I tried to find the Eynesbury Park that Josh's school had a competition to name. We did end up finding it eventually, but it was a bit disappointing. It is only the size of 2 house blocks, and there is nothing there yet.)

At about the half way mark we stopped at the golf club to use the toilets. They were so nice inside! A great place to grab a quick drink.


The run back to the carpark was a killer. The wind was strong and our legs were so tired. We made it up to the corner, only to find that we still had another 3km to go!!! So we ended up doing three laps along the drive to the Melton Reservoir.


I really wish that I had taken my camera. There were so many interesting things that we saw. There were 2 pelicans flying above the reservoir, and five kangaroos in the bush. When we got back to the primary school there was a firetruck there - no fire, they just needed to take the truck out for a drive to get its kilometres up that week! lol