Run 1:30:00 [3] 17.6 km (5:07 / km)
Down on the Mornington Peninsula - my parents are down for the weekend making final wedding arrangements for Cassie and I went down to join them.
As other Victorians will know it was a reasonably wild weekend, meteorologically speaking. The wind wasn't as extreme as I thought it might have been (although still pretty fierce on the more exposed parts of the Bass Strait side), and I managed to miss all the hail showers, partly by going out immediately after one (it's rare in this type of set-up to get two separated by less than an hour). Started at Blairgowrie, initially along the front beach (such as it was - pretty well all the sand had been submerged by a storm surge) to Sorrento, then along the track which runs along the coast on the Bass Strait side. This is sandy in places (although firmer than usual because of the overnight rain) and also has its share of sharp climbs over the dunes.
The scenery was nice - some of you will get a chance to look at some of it at the end of the year (I plan to lead a run over the highlights of this route on New Year's morning) - but my run wasn't so brilliant, lacking strength on most of the climbs.
Saw something in an article about road safety in developing countries that Kazakhstan has apparently made seat belts compulsory. In 2004 I didn't see a seat belt (let alone see one being used) in four weeks in the country, so they must have done a lot of work in a short time.