Run 38:00 [3] 7.4 km (5:08 / km)
This run got reshuffled a bit through the day. Plan A was a standard morning run. I'm staying with one of the conference organisers (*), who's into endurance sports herself (although more cycling, and starting to dabble in adventure racing), and she mentioned that she was planning to run at lunchtime, so plan B was to join her. She then decided she had too much to do to go out (I'm not sure if the heavy rain which fell for most of the day encouraged her in this decision), and getting in and out of the Met Office building without having someone with a pass to do it with is more hassle than it's worth, so I rescheduled again for the evening.
It being peak hour, I chose a route on the map with the principal aim of minimising the number of significant road crossings. This turned out to take me into some of Exeter's grittier suburbs, although Exeter's grittier suburbs are still reasonably tame (no burnt-out cars or discarded needles in sight). Not the greatest run I'll ever have with quads pretty stiff after yesterday's session, but loosened up, sort of, in the second half. Not an awful lot of strength on the hills either.
(* - those who think that public servants live it up in five-star luxury - i.e. readers of the Herald-Sun - may be interested to know that this week I'm on an air mattress on the floor of somebody's spare room - while this is partly because the funding I could get was only enough to cover the flight, in a lot of ways this is actually preferable to an anonymous hotel room. Still gives me a good comeback if my travel details are ever on the end of a Herald-Sun FOI request).