Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

A tougher one today because of both the course and the conditions. As has been stated here ad nauseum in recent weeks I've been struggling on hills lately, and there's only one way to do something about it - in this case involving taking on one of my traditional hilly routes, the North Balwyn/Bulleen traverse. It was also the warmest run I've done so far this summer, 27 degrees and a piercing morning sun, although it was still cool enough for the north wind to be relieving rather than searing. Felt better on the hills than I have for a few weeks (although still not particularly fast on them). Again found the conditions testing in the later stages and was definitely glad I wasn't going 2 1/2 hours today - but then if I was going 2 1/2 hours I'd have started at least 90 minutes earlier. There's a fair chance I'll escape the summer without any days a warm as this for a run of that length; tomorrow will be cooler, next Sunday will probably be cooler, and from late January onwards I'll be back in winter, leaving 23 January as the only date to worry about.

A link to a run of an earlier era came in this morning's Age, which featured a short story partly set in the grounds of the derelict Dubbo drive-in, previously noted at http://www.attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_1491/p....

The ride home last night, like a lot of Friday night rides home in recent weeks, was well into the evening (about 10 this time). A hot night definitely draws life out into the streets, and at 10 it's still lively, rather than menacing as I imagine it can be four or five hours later. It was somewhat ironic that the song running through my head for most of the way was one of loneliness in the big city:

"He’s got this dream about buyin’ some land
He’s gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
And then he’ll settle down, in some quiet little town
And forget about everything."

C • Baker Street 2