Run 2:30:00 [3] 31.0 km (4:50 / km)
This was the longest planned run of this cycle, somewhat later in the morning than usual after not getting to bed until 1.45 this morning for obvious reasons (has anyone watched a more bizarre race than the last leg of the women's relay?). A very nice day for it, cool and sunny; headed along the Yarra initially as far as Templestowe, then back across Doncaster.
This wasn't one of the floating-through-two-hours-on-a-cool-winter's-day runs that I've had on occasions. It was hard work at times, with hamstring soreness occasionally a nuisance from about 50 miutes onwards, and quite tired after a big climb out of Ruffeys Creek at around the 1.45 mark. This, though, was about taking myself out of a recent comfort zone and that mission was accomplished, although I wouldn't have wanted to be going much further (but then I often think that in the later stages of longest-runs-for-a-while irrespective of what the actual length of the run concerned was).
Saw a couple of work colleagues in the last 10 minutes, but was sufficiently deep in the zone that I didn't recognise them until I was almost past them.
The other activity of the day was turning up to vote for local Labor conference delegates. There were apparently some shenanigans and unpleasantness earlier in the day but it seemed to have settled down by the time I turned up (either that or the alleged protagonists realised that getting up to funny business within the sight of someone with a reputation as a stickler for proper processes and with good media connections wouldn't be terribly smart).