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Tuesday Mar 29, 2011 #
7 AM
Run 1:00:00 [3] 12.0 km (5:00 / km)
A bit of reshuffling this week, running street-O on Tuesday rather than Wednesday, which meant a morning run from the inner north, starting on Arden Street and going north around the top of Moonee Valley racecourse. Definitely grinding the gears for the first 15 minutes - wouldn't have wanted to be doing speedwork this morning - but gradually got into it a bit more. Handling climbs reasonably. Achilles a bit sorer than usual and didn't really settle.
Heard one of the better scrutineering stories I've come across for a while, from Saturday's NSW election. A would-be informal voter (a commodity probably not in short supply on Saturday) left the ballot paper blank, except for scrawling a word referring to a certain part of the male anatomy across the name of the Labor candidate. However, the way it was done the 'I' landed in the box, and it was counted as a valid vote for Labor. I'm guessing this wasn't the voter's intention.
Heard one of the better scrutineering stories I've come across for a while, from Saturday's NSW election. A would-be informal voter (a commodity probably not in short supply on Saturday) left the ballot paper blank, except for scrawling a word referring to a certain part of the male anatomy across the name of the Labor candidate. However, the way it was done the 'I' landed in the box, and it was counted as a valid vote for Labor. I'm guessing this wasn't the voter's intention.
7 PM
Run race 36:39 [4] * 7.6 km (4:49 / km) +80m 4:35 / km
spiked:21/23c
Street-O at Kensington, across the road from Flemington racecourse and starting outside the Marathon dim sim factory (now we know where the slow horses end up). The newer part of this would make a decent sprint area although I'm not sure how we'd go with permissions.
The area is on the small side which means doing something a little unusual to keep people out for something close to the full quota. This time round it was having two maps, but in a score event there was no reason why you couldn't leave some controls from the first map and pick the second one up early. I left two controls from the first map to get later. Schweppes took that strategy further and went more or less straight to the map change, only to find that the maps hadn't got there yet. He lost a bit of time there but it was more or less cancelled out by stumbling across two controls from the second map before he actually had it (he ended up doing 90 metres longer than me and beat me by 1.40).
With a lot of controls to punch and a few stairs and other bits of awkwardness, this was slower than recent weeks but felt like a decent run (the margin to Matt suggests that too). Blew 30 seconds or so when I had trouble pinpointing 10. Quite a warm night although 27 at 7pm feels much less hot than 27 at 11am. Achilles better than it was this morning.
The area is on the small side which means doing something a little unusual to keep people out for something close to the full quota. This time round it was having two maps, but in a score event there was no reason why you couldn't leave some controls from the first map and pick the second one up early. I left two controls from the first map to get later. Schweppes took that strategy further and went more or less straight to the map change, only to find that the maps hadn't got there yet. He lost a bit of time there but it was more or less cancelled out by stumbling across two controls from the second map before he actually had it (he ended up doing 90 metres longer than me and beat me by 1.40).
With a lot of controls to punch and a few stairs and other bits of awkwardness, this was slower than recent weeks but felt like a decent run (the margin to Matt suggests that too). Blew 30 seconds or so when I had trouble pinpointing 10. Quite a warm night although 27 at 7pm feels much less hot than 27 at 11am. Achilles better than it was this morning.