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Tuesday Apr 12, 2011 #
6 AM
Run 1:41:00 [3] 19.4 km (5:12 / km)
The forecast was for heavy rain but it was a small system so the forecast had the potential to go wrong (there was certainly going to be heavy rain somewhere, but the 'somewhere' could have been anywhere between us and central Gippsland). When the rain woke me up, more or less for good, around 3.30 it was obvious that the system hadn't missed us, and there were various times in the early hours when I thought I might be doing some baking (it is a Climate Analysis tradition that anyone who gets 100mm in a day at their place has to bring in a cake). In the end the score was 67, 62 of it in six hours between 1.30 and 7.30.
I headed out at 6.15, with rain still falling but the radar indicating a clearance not far away (although it took 45 minutes to properly reach us). Moisture above doesn't normally bother me and this was particularly unbothersome (felt like being under a shower - I suspect the droplet size was unusually small). Moisture below was a bit more of a concern, particularly in the first 15 minutes when it was still dark and I couldn't always see water until I was in it. I thought I might have had trouble getting across the Darebin Creek footbridges, but it hadn't risen as much as I was expecting it to.
After all that, the run felt reasonable (in a reshuffled week because I plan to run hard on Thursday; this will be my last one of any real length before Easter) - drifted out of it a bit in the third quarter but was OK in the last 15 minutes across some pretty steep hills in Eaglemont. Knee a bit stiff in last few minutes. Rather slow but I think the conditions probably had a fair bit to do with that.
As wet runs go, it's the wettest one I've done for a while, although still well short of my PB daily total of 359mm (Surfers Paradise, 10 May 1987 - one of numerous washed-out 1980s Gold Coast May holidays).
I headed out at 6.15, with rain still falling but the radar indicating a clearance not far away (although it took 45 minutes to properly reach us). Moisture above doesn't normally bother me and this was particularly unbothersome (felt like being under a shower - I suspect the droplet size was unusually small). Moisture below was a bit more of a concern, particularly in the first 15 minutes when it was still dark and I couldn't always see water until I was in it. I thought I might have had trouble getting across the Darebin Creek footbridges, but it hadn't risen as much as I was expecting it to.
After all that, the run felt reasonable (in a reshuffled week because I plan to run hard on Thursday; this will be my last one of any real length before Easter) - drifted out of it a bit in the third quarter but was OK in the last 15 minutes across some pretty steep hills in Eaglemont. Knee a bit stiff in last few minutes. Rather slow but I think the conditions probably had a fair bit to do with that.
As wet runs go, it's the wettest one I've done for a while, although still well short of my PB daily total of 359mm (Surfers Paradise, 10 May 1987 - one of numerous washed-out 1980s Gold Coast May holidays).