Run 2:10:00 [3] 26.0 km (5:00 / km)
A steady and mostly smooth effort after the initial warm-up, a bit longer than recent midweek long runs to partially offset the lack of a weekend long run (I fly out too early on Saturday for a long run then to be a realistic option, and don't get in until Sunday night). Most of this was fairly routine - good for midweek long runs to be becoming reasonably routine, although I'm not doing this off a race - although Achilles was a bit touchy at times, and it wasn't that quick.
The plan was to head east, mostly in the name of staying in places likely to be lit for the first hour until it got light before getting a bit more adventurous in the second half, which meant about half-an-hour in France. It was the clearest morning since I've been here, which meant the bonus of the shape of Mont Blanc and associated mountains gradually appearing in the first of the sunrise.
I've previously been heard to refer to Annemasse as Geneva's Queanbeyan (with the addition of the collection of shopping centres you'd see in Queanbeyan if the NSW dollar was worth two-thirds of the ACT one). This route didn't take me through as many trash features as last time I was out this way and it was too early to sight any bogans (French bogans do exist - I once spotted a hotted-up car with doof-doof and fluffy dice outside the Notre Dame in Paris), but it still won't feature in any list of France's most attractive towns.
Back in Switzerland, the quiet creekside walking track wasn't quite as quiet as it seemed because it ran past the building site for what appears to be a new prison, perhaps to house the perpetators of the crime wave that the local media keeps going on about (a crime wave which I suspect is as well-founded in actual crime statistics as similar phenomena reported in Australian tabloid papers). Apart from that it wasn't a bad section. Finished off OK through some of the more pleasant suburbs.
It was 0 overnight and there was plenty of frost on cars, which suggests either that it had warmed up a bit by the time I headed out, or I've acclimatised too well for my own good considering I'll be back into summer in four days' time.