Run 2:09:00 [3] 27.0 km (4:47 / km)
Pretty good for the first two-thirds, certainly a lot better than the equivalent run last week, and taking on some quite hilly country, particularly a section through Apollo Parkways where I go when I'm looking for a serious challenge (it's steep enough to have (steep) alongside the street name in the Melway, and is probably the sharpest hill within running range of my place). Faded considerably beyond 90 minutes, particularly up hills (all of them a lot shorter and less steep than the aforementioned Apollo Parkways), probably because of inadequate fluid levels.
I was surprised how much fluid I lost on this run; it was 22 degrees with occasional light rain, and quite humid, but didn't have a real sense of being hot, but I came in at 69kg afterwards which is about 3 below par for me. With back-to-back Christmas parties this afternoon/evening I will have ample opportunities for fluid replacement. The second of them, for the local ALP, is likely to be particularly celebratory, although I'm not sure how we're going to get everyone into the office of the state member for Eltham. (George Seitz allegedly once managed to get 497 people into his Keilor office for a meeting, but given his reputation as the Victorian ALP's most notorious branch stacker - and the competition is tough - most of us suspect the meeting in question never actually took place).
