Run 1:02:00 [3] 11.3 km (5:29 / km)
Didn't sleep very well last night for assorted reasons and feeling a bit sicker this morning than I was last night (or perhaps just in a different phase). Being the stubborn soul that I am, decided to go out anyway since what I had planned wasn't overly strenuous. It was more or less OK in the first 3km on the flat, but anything more than level ground was a struggle, and faded further in the later stages. Decided after that that I was going to get the train into town...
Today's announcement of the reintroduction of Australian knights and dames brought back some memories of some past political campaigning. In the lead-up to the 1999 republic referendum I was doing a letterbox drop for the Yes campaign. My patch was South Yarra and Toorak, and the very first letter box I went to was labelled 'Sir David and Lady Hay'. I suspected it would be a waste of a leaflet, but dropped it in anyway. (It wasn't the first time I'd campaigned in Toorak - it's actually a marginal seat at state level because the Housing Commission towers in Prahran cancel out the mansions at the Toorak end).
(If I recall correctly, just about the last recipient of a knighthood in Australia had to leave his title behind at the entrance to the Big House - corrupt former Queensland police commissioner Terry Lewis).