Rest day Saturday

It was a brilliant autumn day in the Manawatu today.  Not a cloud in the sky.  Only a high of 20C, but it was still nice in the sun.

I've already got tomorrow run planned, I'm heading out to the university and going to tackle hills for the first time.  But today was too nice not to get out and do something, so we went out walking near the river.  There were a lot of people out running, walking and biking on the trail today.  I think everyone had the same idea - making the most of what might be one of the last nice days before the grey Palmy winter hits.

We both had the GPS sportstrackers going on our phones, so now I'm not quite sure how far we walked.  One came out at 6.08km, the other was just on 7km.  I don't think mapmyrun.com is quite accurate either at 6km, as it was hard to guess exactly where were walking, as the google map doesn't show the road and trails through the park.

The Manawatu river, this is where we started on the bridle track that runs along the river.  It was cool in the shade, with a suprisingly cold wind when we started.

We stopped only a few minutes later to get this photo looking back.  They only built these steps a year or two ago.  Before then it wasn't easy to get down to the water.  Looks like a few students from the uni were out studying and enjoying the sun.

We then walked away from the river and along the lagoon.  All the ducks...and a lot of duck poo to avoid!

Somewhere in the bushes next to the little black mother duck, is a baby.  It has a red beak if that helps.

 We then headed back to the river and back the way we came - I think it must have been about 3km along the river.

And then back the way we came.

It was nice to get out and walk in the sun.