Run 1:46:00 [3] 18.0 km (5:53 / km) +450m 5:14 / km
Shifted my long(ish) run to today, partly because tomorrow will be awkward with other commitments early in the day, partly because it gave me the chance to do a bit more exploring of eastern Sydney - in a couple of previous trips out this way I've never quite made it as far as Bondi on a run. Started out by heading north and north-east through Queens Park and then roughly along the ridgeline, encountering first a neighbourhood with a lot of orthodox Jews (a familiar sight from my days in Albert Park doing runs into East St.Kilda), then a surprisingly suburban patch (albeit with a certain amount of parking alla Romana) north of Bondi. Dropped down to run the longest kilometre in Sydney running, that along the Bondi beachfront, and then along the coastal path to Coogee and a bit beyond. This has a lot of stairs and other ups and downs and is consequently slow going. Finished up with a solid climb out of South Coogee, being briefly slightly disoriented as the streets didn't quite point in the direction I was expecting, but made it in more or less on my target time.
No sparkle this morning, but pretty reasonable at grinding when I needed to be (and again no sign of any back issues on the climbs).
Useless information item for the day is that, under a law from 1324, all whales, dolphins and sturgeon in British waters are legally the property of the Queen. This reminded me that there was a time when all offal and viscera produced at abattoirs in the ACT was legally the property of the federal Minister for Health; what they're supposed to do with it is a bit of a mystery. (There used to be an abattoir, or at least a signpost to one, just before you crossed the border into Queanbeyan, but I suspect that it ceased to function many years ago).
Heading back to Melbourne tonight.