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Sunday Dec 29, 2013 #
8 AM
Run 2:30:00 [3] 29.0 km (5:10 / km)
Set out with the intention of lifting the longest-run-of-year benchmark a bit further and succeeded. Had the feeling about a kilometre in that this was going to be a pretty good one, and for two hours that was the case - steadily clocking up the kilometres, coping well with the hills (not as many as on some recent long runs) and generally going quite smoothly, with a few very good patches, especially around 18-19k coming through Bundoora Park. Started to struggle in the last half-hour, although more in a tired-muscles sense than a weakness sense, and was still able to handle the final climb with a little in hand. Still not quite sure where the next 16km are going to come from, but that's what the next two months of training are for.
Conditions as good as they get at this time of year (16-18 degrees, low humidity and a cool southwest breeze), but didn't drink enough - water being in short supply on these routes with only one dodgy bubbler about 85 minutes in (will have to start carrying my own when I come out this way, something which is probably good practice for what's upcoming anyway). My shoes aren't quite broken in yet as I have noticeable blisters on both little toes, although neither caused me much trouble on the run.
Put the newly-acquired waffle iron to good use post-run.
One more street ticked off: Albert Court, Greensborough (Albert is one of Melbourne's more popular street names so it's mildly surprising there's only one in Banyule).
Conditions as good as they get at this time of year (16-18 degrees, low humidity and a cool southwest breeze), but didn't drink enough - water being in short supply on these routes with only one dodgy bubbler about 85 minutes in (will have to start carrying my own when I come out this way, something which is probably good practice for what's upcoming anyway). My shoes aren't quite broken in yet as I have noticeable blisters on both little toes, although neither caused me much trouble on the run.
Put the newly-acquired waffle iron to good use post-run.
One more street ticked off: Albert Court, Greensborough (Albert is one of Melbourne's more popular street names so it's mildly surprising there's only one in Banyule).
8 PM
Note
I'm starting to wonder about Ararat: as viewers of the Big Bash will have heard ad nauseum (in the context of a Biggest Loser special that is being vigorously promoted), it has one of Australia's highest obesity rates (something I don't think can be blamed very much on the Vines Cafe's hot chocolate, the best I have found in Australia). Now it's been reported in today's Age that, according to 2011 Census data, Ararat and Benalla are among the regional Victorian centres where the Census found precisely zero same-sex couples. (To the surprise of no-one who's been there, Daylesford was at the top of the list, at least in percentage terms).