Run race 13:37 [5] 3.83 km (3:33 / km)
Tan 13.37, a couple of seconds slower than last time. Felt reasonably smooth for a lot of this run, but still no real pace, particularly early on. Around some good people for most of the way, and good conditions; a few obstacles (as always on a nice day on the Tan) of the sort that are annoying but don't take long to get around. (Note to other Tan users: it really isn't a good idea to park two prams side by side on the apex of a blind corner at 12.30 on a Wednesday). Some of my fellow runners were tempted to hurdle the six junior primary students walking side by side and holding hands, but it's probably as well that they didn't.
Km splits: 3.35, 3.41, 3.33, 3.29.
Run 31:00 [2] 6.5 km (4:46 / km)
Going to/from the Tan. Some good smells drifting across from what I presume was an Indian Diwali celebration next to the river.
Run race ((street-O)) 38:00 [4] * 8.9 km (4:16 / km)
spiked:16/17c
The start of the street-O season, at East Burwood, and one of the handful of occasions each year where street-O runs into the Corporate Cup and I try to double up. It usually doesn't work. It worked better this time than it often does; I felt reasonably smooth for a lot of the way, although faded away a bit at the end (and made a silly mistake on the last control, pulling up short). 2nd behind Adam; I assume Bryan wasn't trying too hard.
My route choice was reasonable, I think, although one negative of it was that doing an inner loop of two controls first was a bad move - it put me at the third control just as the C course pack was approaching it as their first. Had to do a bit of queue-jumping to avoid being held up behind 20 others.