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Tuesday Nov 3, 2020 #
9 AM
Run 40:00 [3] 6.9 km (5:48 / km)
Small steps. Felt incrementally better today, although starting to feel the warmth at the end on the first warm-weather run of spring. It certainly wasn't the hills because this one was just about dead flat, going into previously unvisited country in the northwest part of my circle (west of Station Street, north of Darebin Road) - this has a relatively simple grid and is flat and I don't think I've run there before except on Boulder Dash street-O events.
Part of the rest of the day was devoted to exploring on the north side of the Yarra - didn't find any new spots to access the river and only fleeting views, but there are some nice bits of bush around the Bend of Islands, which looks like the sort of place where it would be nice to live in the forest but is a bushfire disaster waiting for a year to happen, with added bonus points because the only significant exit road is to the northwest which is the direction a fire would come from. (Had the wind change been an hour or two later, that year would have been 2009).
Found a decent cafe in Hurstbridge for lunch too. Reaching there involved passing through the soon-to-be-removed Doreen roundabout, which featured signs on one side of the road calling for the building of option C and signs on the other side of the road calling for options B and C to be ditched and option A to be built. Neither of them will be happy because some post-trip googling revealed option B is the one that's happening. (For those of us who grew up in 1980s Canberra, the expression 'option C' will be permanently associated with Paul Keating's abortive attempt to introduce a GST 15 years before it actually happened - which naturally didn't stop him from eviscerating John Hewson for trying the same thing in 1993).
One thing which puzzled me a bit on passing it is why South Morang's primary school is called Morang South, but it seems that Morang South is the earlier name and the school kept it after the settlement was renamed. (Checking this also revealed the answer to the question "where's Morang?" - the locality formerly known as Morang North is now Mernda).
Part of the rest of the day was devoted to exploring on the north side of the Yarra - didn't find any new spots to access the river and only fleeting views, but there are some nice bits of bush around the Bend of Islands, which looks like the sort of place where it would be nice to live in the forest but is a bushfire disaster waiting for a year to happen, with added bonus points because the only significant exit road is to the northwest which is the direction a fire would come from. (Had the wind change been an hour or two later, that year would have been 2009).
Found a decent cafe in Hurstbridge for lunch too. Reaching there involved passing through the soon-to-be-removed Doreen roundabout, which featured signs on one side of the road calling for the building of option C and signs on the other side of the road calling for options B and C to be ditched and option A to be built. Neither of them will be happy because some post-trip googling revealed option B is the one that's happening. (For those of us who grew up in 1980s Canberra, the expression 'option C' will be permanently associated with Paul Keating's abortive attempt to introduce a GST 15 years before it actually happened - which naturally didn't stop him from eviscerating John Hewson for trying the same thing in 1993).
One thing which puzzled me a bit on passing it is why South Morang's primary school is called Morang South, but it seems that Morang South is the earlier name and the school kept it after the settlement was renamed. (Checking this also revealed the answer to the question "where's Morang?" - the locality formerly known as Morang North is now Mernda).