Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Sparkled early, then became a bit of a grind through the middle. Calves much improved but Achilles still an issue - I'd hoped it might have been a secondary symptom of calf tightness but perhaps not. Had to work hard up the hills later on but finished reasonably well.

There were a lot of trees down across the singletrack next to the river at Banyule Flats; not sure if this was a product of yesterday's squall or something that happened while I was away. Also saw a platypus in the river (with the help of someone who was looking for them more closely than I was).

This was coming off a pretty late night watching the WOC relays, from which all concerned emerge with great credit. (If karma means anything Thierry Gueorgiou or Anders Nordberg will win the long; Michal Smola isn't running). It was then followed by another equally late night thanks to a weather enthuasists' gathering in the city, which gave me the opportunity to see whether the central city on a Saturday night really is the hellhole that the Herald-Sun and Channel 7 would have you believe. I didn't see any evidence of it - in fact Russell Street, where we were, is a good deal less seedy than it was a decade ago when it was druggie central - although I still wouldn't go to King Street at 2am. Where the reporting is severely lacking in perspective is that none of this is remotely new (I've seen references to alcohol-related violence in central Melbourne in newspapers from 1851), nor is it anything which differs particularly from similar districts in just about any other city in the Western world. If people want to see what a dangerous city looks like they should try Johannesburg or Rio.