27 August 2021
Distance: 25.1 km
After a long run yesterday, I planned a shorter 20 km run heading north from Corryton Park Road to Tanunda for day 2 of my multi day run. As the next few days running were closer to Tanunda, I left the caravan park at Kapunda and moved base to Tanunda. The plan was to start late morning and finish around the time I could check in to my accommodation.
It was an absolutely gorgeous day for running, with sunny skies and mild temperatures. The trail in this section is absolutely beautiful – views for miles and long sections of easy running. Surprisingly my legs felt pretty good after the previous day’s efforts and I managed to get along at a reasonable and comfortable pace.
After a flattish section, the trail started to climb gently upwards and entered the Mount Crawford Forest. Here the trail follows the unsealed access roads – pretty and soft underfoot.
After crossing Wallowa Track, the trail enters the Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park, before descending downwards to Bethany Reserve. The views from the top across the valley were just beautiful, with the countryside green and lush from recent rains.
Once past Bethany Reserve the trail is pretty flat into the outskirts of Tanunda and once again the trail joined an unsealed road.
Then it was onto a series of roads skirting the southern side of Tanunda eventually meeting the main street, Murray Road where I intended to stop and go to a café for a late lunch.
And here I made another blunder. Feeling good and ahead of schedule I decided to continue on the trail as it went around the back of Tanunda and turning northwards again. I thought I would be staying pretty close to the centre of Tanunda and so a few more kilometres wouldn’t hurt and I would end up closer to my accommodation. Wrong, wrong, wrong! As I realised when I found myself on Seppeltsfield Road, quite a way west of the town. Curse my hubris! So it was a sad trudge back toward town, the only salvation being finding sanctuary at the Barossa Chocolate Factory and a taxi ride back to my car.
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