Gerry about 8 seconds before the start.

A beautiful morning as the sun rises over paddocks and lakes.

Henley Lake in the background.

Quaint letterbox. 🙂

Gerry on his way to the first water point.

With the sun still only just out, it’s hard not to also get the photographer in the pic.

Early morning wonderland.

Running in rural Wairarapa.

Between farms and cattle filled paddocks.

Signage to indicate where runners should go, as there aren’t many marshals en route.

Almost a quarter of the way done. I knew then already that the 32km trail run of the previous weekend was still in my legs.

First run in a while that I’ve ended up in a t-shirt!

For some reason a farmer dumped his lamb tails next to the road?

Hehe – couldn’t help but have a laugh at this sight!

First lap done, onto number two.

Over the Waipoua River.

Clear instructions along the way.

Crossing the Ruamahanga River.

Amusing rural distance markers.

Heeha!

Lovely scenery en route.

Only about two kilometres to go. Yey!

Prize-giving.

This is another of those events that we’ve been looking to do for the last couple of years. Being “reasonably fit” this year in our attempt to run 100km in February 2015, Gerry entered us for the Wairarapa Country Marathon as buildup towards our main goal. Being well aware that I haven’t remotely recovered from the 32km trail run of the previous week, we were entered and was going to push through. Neither of us are ill or injured and we need the mileage, so with no excuses we drove through on the Saturday afternoon.

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