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Wednesday Feb 4, 2009 #
Run 1:02:00 [3] 12.1 km (5:07 / km)
A more encouraging run than some of late. Not always smooth but decent strength on the hills on a run that was hillier than most I've done recently. Looks slow but there were quite a few letterbox stops mixed in with that.
Something I'm seeing more of on the way into work is organisations with their own bike tops. In recent weeks I've seen tops promoting such august organisations as the SES and the Magistrates Court of Victoria. Today's haul was the Riga Port Authority (in Latvian colours) and a skin cancer clinic (perhaps surprisingly the latter wasn't long sleeved). Perhaps we should have a Bureau of Meteorology one, with something on the back saying 'Don't blame us for the headwind/rain/extreme heat/extreme cold/thunderstorm/cyclone (delete where inapplicable)'.
Something I'm seeing more of on the way into work is organisations with their own bike tops. In recent weeks I've seen tops promoting such august organisations as the SES and the Magistrates Court of Victoria. Today's haul was the Riga Port Authority (in Latvian colours) and a skin cancer clinic (perhaps surprisingly the latter wasn't long sleeved). Perhaps we should have a Bureau of Meteorology one, with something on the back saying 'Don't blame us for the headwind/rain/extreme heat/extreme cold/thunderstorm/cyclone (delete where inapplicable)'.
Run race 49:00 [4] * 10.0 km (4:54 / km) +290m 4:17 / km
spiked:17/18c
Two steps forward the last couple of days, but definitely a step back tonight.
This was a Summer Series event at Yarran Dherran, which I don't think I've run on in about a decade. It's always been hilly, and now it has a freeway spaghetti junction in the middle of it. This made for some extremely convoluted legs (the two controls 100 metres apart in a straight line, but on opposite sides of a 10-metre high noise wall, were particularly tricky - I dropped one of them and gained the benefits). It was 10 degrees cooler than last week, but 32 (with fairly high humidity for Melbourne) is definitely still on the warm side.
I started out moderately; didn't have a lot of energy in the first third, and then a little before halfway started to feel the beginnings of a cramp in the same place as last Thursday. This immediately sounded the alarm Danger! Danger! Danger!, and I backed right off. It didn't recur but the second half of the course was definitely a struggle. I must have got something right with the route, though, because I might have won (I certainly beat Adam and Bryan, but on such a slow night it's quite possible that someone not normally on the radar got the lot of us).
Saturday looks really nasty - on current forecasts just about the worst fire weather day in recorded Victorian history. Hopefully arsonists sleep in very late on weekends. At least that's it - the first half of next week looks quite cool.
I obviously haven't progressed as far as I thought. I'm going to defer tomorrow's planned long run until Friday, and my plans for the weekend must be in some doubt too.
This was a Summer Series event at Yarran Dherran, which I don't think I've run on in about a decade. It's always been hilly, and now it has a freeway spaghetti junction in the middle of it. This made for some extremely convoluted legs (the two controls 100 metres apart in a straight line, but on opposite sides of a 10-metre high noise wall, were particularly tricky - I dropped one of them and gained the benefits). It was 10 degrees cooler than last week, but 32 (with fairly high humidity for Melbourne) is definitely still on the warm side.
I started out moderately; didn't have a lot of energy in the first third, and then a little before halfway started to feel the beginnings of a cramp in the same place as last Thursday. This immediately sounded the alarm Danger! Danger! Danger!, and I backed right off. It didn't recur but the second half of the course was definitely a struggle. I must have got something right with the route, though, because I might have won (I certainly beat Adam and Bryan, but on such a slow night it's quite possible that someone not normally on the radar got the lot of us).
Saturday looks really nasty - on current forecasts just about the worst fire weather day in recorded Victorian history. Hopefully arsonists sleep in very late on weekends. At least that's it - the first half of next week looks quite cool.
I obviously haven't progressed as far as I thought. I'm going to defer tomorrow's planned long run until Friday, and my plans for the weekend must be in some doubt too.