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Thursday Mar 26, 2015 #
5 PM
Run 1:03:00 [3] 11.0 km (5:44 / km)
It was a long day. The main reason I was in Canberra was for an external review of our data set. I expected this process to be challenging without being hostile, and it was (if the minister had wanted to cause trouble the panel would have looked very different - mostly statistical types, summed up by the fact that no fewer than five of the eight panel members, on being introduced, asked me how Dad was or words to that effect). It's fairly hard work, though, doing three talks (and associated intensive Q+A sessions) back to back. Wasn't as if I had nothing to do beforehand either - started the day with an IOF Foot Commission teleconference from 6 to 8.
We now need to wait for the report (which will be a "damning report" in the Australian regardless of its actual contents). I expect the most challenging thing it will do is make recommendations which involve doing lots of extra work.
This process has been consuming me for a while and my plan was to get out immediately afterwards for a run on familiar territory from times past (was hoping Lucy, who's also been deeply involved in this process on the organisational side, would also come but she couldn't make it) - this being the Red Hill ridgeline (except for the very western end beyond the reservoirs at the Deakin end). Feeling a bit clogged up - after a fortnight as intense as this I feel as if getting sick is almost an inevitability - and battled a bit on the initial climb, but much stronger on the Davo section, and then nice coming back down on the track alongside Mugga Way, on a cool evening with the sun sinking behind the ridge.
Scary to think that it's 30 years, almost to the day, that I rounded the La Perouse signpost, saw no-one within 150 metres and realised that this was a race (to be specific, the school under-14 cross-country) that I was going to win....(I did have the considerable advantage, relative to the opposition, that I was actually training).
This was the sort of day where I was running on adrenalin for most of it - but I've definitely hit the wall now ("now" being in the lounge waiting for a delayed flight back to Melbourne).
We now need to wait for the report (which will be a "damning report" in the Australian regardless of its actual contents). I expect the most challenging thing it will do is make recommendations which involve doing lots of extra work.
This process has been consuming me for a while and my plan was to get out immediately afterwards for a run on familiar territory from times past (was hoping Lucy, who's also been deeply involved in this process on the organisational side, would also come but she couldn't make it) - this being the Red Hill ridgeline (except for the very western end beyond the reservoirs at the Deakin end). Feeling a bit clogged up - after a fortnight as intense as this I feel as if getting sick is almost an inevitability - and battled a bit on the initial climb, but much stronger on the Davo section, and then nice coming back down on the track alongside Mugga Way, on a cool evening with the sun sinking behind the ridge.
Scary to think that it's 30 years, almost to the day, that I rounded the La Perouse signpost, saw no-one within 150 metres and realised that this was a race (to be specific, the school under-14 cross-country) that I was going to win....(I did have the considerable advantage, relative to the opposition, that I was actually training).
This was the sort of day where I was running on adrenalin for most of it - but I've definitely hit the wall now ("now" being in the lounge waiting for a delayed flight back to Melbourne).