Team Insanity’s training session last weekend was just a short, local one.  Wayne was off on another work trip (some people have interesting sounding jobs…  ) so Brock, Shane and I meet at the Mt Gravatt Outlook on Sunday morning with a map and a rough plan of walking for a few hours.

All in all, it was a very uneventful walk.  We set off from the Outlook at 9am heading down Mt Gravatt through the Griffith University campus, and into the larger part of Toohey Forest.  We didn’t have a plan for where we were walking to, so followed a series of signs to the picnic area where we walked past a family having a Mother’s Day BBQ breakfast (which we smelt appreciatively on the way past) before doing a lap of the carpark (past the BBQ) and out onto Toohey Rd in search of a small part of the reserve with a lookout.

It’s perhaps a good thing that the Kokoda Challenge isn’t really a navigational event in light of the fact that we seem to end up on the wrong path / street from time to time, or in this case, walking the wrong direction down the main road.  We wandered down a side street which "looked kind of bush-like" and down a "track" past a few houses before deciding that the dense bamboo "forest" wasn’t quite what we were expecting and turning back around.

After meandering past the BBQ a third time (still with no offers of food) we found the path we were looking for and made our way to Pegg’s Lookout.  Presumably when this "lookout" was named as such, there was a view?  Sure, there are glimpses of some the mountains southwest of Brisbane in the distance, but the most dominating feature of the landscape is most definitely the Salisbury industrial area!  Somewhat disappointed, we headed back towards the main roads, this time detouring past an old quarry where we were overtaken by some mountain bikers and their dog.

Back in the larger section of the forest we once again passed the BBQ-ing family (again, no offers of food…) and the two other interest points on the map: the Western Outlook and the Sandstone Lookout.  The best way to describe both locations is with the word "trees" – the view-blocking kind.  Having managed to completely underwhelmed by all three lookouts in one morning we started to head back towards Mt Gravatt and despite an attempt at a detour through the sports facilities at the University, made it back to the summit without any major issues.  However, despite the uninspiring walk, we managed to clock up about 15 kilometres in about 3 hours.  Better luck next week!