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Monday Jul 10, 2017 #
8 AM
Swimming 36:00 [2] 1.0 km (36:00 / km)
Fairly standard recovery session on a nice morning for this time of year, bright but not too cold. Started slowly, picked up a bit through the middle but drifted out of it a little towards the end.
Uplifting encounter of the commute was being next to a car at the lights, whose three rear-seat occupants (all girls of seven or so) amused themselves by making faces and waving in my direction, something i was quite happy to reciprocate. The return to reality came a few blocks later in the form of a get-out-of-the-f***ing-way horn blast, by someone who is perhaps disgruntled by the fact that La Trobe Street is currently narrowed to one lane at King Street because one wall of the building on the corner is considered by the council (with some justification given the visible cracks) to be unstable.
(The building in question is a two-story affair which is apparently the only surviving shop from mid-19th century Melbourne, and as such is of heritage significance. It's owned and occupied by a couple in their 90s who apparently don't have anything like the money needed to restore it properly. I imagine that developers are salivating over the site and will not be in the least distressed if the building falls over; hopefully they don't give it any encouragement to do so, but if it burns down or someone accidentally on purpose crashes a car into it, it's probably time for somebody to ask some searching questions).
Uplifting encounter of the commute was being next to a car at the lights, whose three rear-seat occupants (all girls of seven or so) amused themselves by making faces and waving in my direction, something i was quite happy to reciprocate. The return to reality came a few blocks later in the form of a get-out-of-the-f***ing-way horn blast, by someone who is perhaps disgruntled by the fact that La Trobe Street is currently narrowed to one lane at King Street because one wall of the building on the corner is considered by the council (with some justification given the visible cracks) to be unstable.
(The building in question is a two-story affair which is apparently the only surviving shop from mid-19th century Melbourne, and as such is of heritage significance. It's owned and occupied by a couple in their 90s who apparently don't have anything like the money needed to restore it properly. I imagine that developers are salivating over the site and will not be in the least distressed if the building falls over; hopefully they don't give it any encouragement to do so, but if it burns down or someone accidentally on purpose crashes a car into it, it's probably time for somebody to ask some searching questions).
1 PM
Run 42:00 [3] 7.6 km (5:32 / km)
First attempt for a while at a lunchtime run. Wasn't sure what to expect of this, particularly after yesterday, and felt iffy in the first 10 minutes. No significant injury issues after that, but felt a bit sluggish on the way down to Beacon Cove and back.
I suspect the GPS was doing strange things amongst the big buildings, particularly when attempting to navigate the maze of the South Wharf construction site; I certainly didn't run a 4.26 kilometre in the middle of that section.
Also spotted a double-decker bus heading toward the Montague Street bridge. It turned.
I suspect the GPS was doing strange things amongst the big buildings, particularly when attempting to navigate the maze of the South Wharf construction site; I certainly didn't run a 4.26 kilometre in the middle of that section.
Also spotted a double-decker bus heading toward the Montague Street bridge. It turned.