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Tuesday Dec 20, 2011 #
7 AM
Run 1:06:00 [3] 13.0 km (5:05 / km)
Northwards from Clifton Hill. Feeling sluggish, half-asleep and very slow for most of the first 40 minutes, picked up considerably after that (partly by necessity as I was running late) - perhaps also because the Merri Creek was the nicest part of the run (despite the inevitable illegally-off-leash dog).
The northernmost limit of this was roughly Normanby Road, a regular route for us between grandparents in the day. The intersection with St. Georges Road used to feature a novelty for Canberrans of the 1980s, a fast-food cluster of which only Hungry Jacks survives (Canberra at that stage had only a couple apiece of McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut, none of them anywhere near Aranda). Such clusters still exist elsewhere in Melbourne, as Bruce related from his trip to Epping on the weekend, finding the trifecta of McDonalds/KFC/Hungry Jacks (as well as Autobarn/Repco/Supercheap Auto).
Proceeded from the run to a long-overdue massage, which was a sufficiently painful experience to put me in mind of the Susie Power quote to the effect that childbirth was nothing compared with some of the massages she'd had (those who've actually experienced the former are free to disagree).
Some excitement at work today with the possibility of a Christmas cyclone somewhere in the vicinity of Darwin, a prospect which will no doubt receive sober, scientifically accurate and non-sensational coverage in a well-known Darwin newspaper. Given who it is who shares a name with the previous Darwin Christmas cyclone it's an interesting coincidence that this one, if it happens (and if the likely Coral Sea one forms first), will be called Grant. If you're looking for other orienteering cyclone names, we'll see a Jasmine (5th on the list) in the next couple of months, and a Bruce (18th) probably sometime in 2013 - the full list is here. (If, on the other hand, the powers that be want a more contemporary Australian list next time round, they could always try here instead).
The northernmost limit of this was roughly Normanby Road, a regular route for us between grandparents in the day. The intersection with St. Georges Road used to feature a novelty for Canberrans of the 1980s, a fast-food cluster of which only Hungry Jacks survives (Canberra at that stage had only a couple apiece of McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut, none of them anywhere near Aranda). Such clusters still exist elsewhere in Melbourne, as Bruce related from his trip to Epping on the weekend, finding the trifecta of McDonalds/KFC/Hungry Jacks (as well as Autobarn/Repco/Supercheap Auto).
Proceeded from the run to a long-overdue massage, which was a sufficiently painful experience to put me in mind of the Susie Power quote to the effect that childbirth was nothing compared with some of the massages she'd had (those who've actually experienced the former are free to disagree).
Some excitement at work today with the possibility of a Christmas cyclone somewhere in the vicinity of Darwin, a prospect which will no doubt receive sober, scientifically accurate and non-sensational coverage in a well-known Darwin newspaper. Given who it is who shares a name with the previous Darwin Christmas cyclone it's an interesting coincidence that this one, if it happens (and if the likely Coral Sea one forms first), will be called Grant. If you're looking for other orienteering cyclone names, we'll see a Jasmine (5th on the list) in the next couple of months, and a Bruce (18th) probably sometime in 2013 - the full list is here. (If, on the other hand, the powers that be want a more contemporary Australian list next time round, they could always try here instead).