State Series at Two Kangaroo Creeks, one of those classic moderately hilly central Victorian gully-spur areas that I used to expect to do low 6s on back in the day. It's not quite now what it was then; there have been several fires on various parts of the area in the last decade, which have produced a certain amount of (unmapped) attractive-looking but evil-feeling regrowth - something which made its presence felt on 3, 4 and 5. (Bryan still managed to get close to 6 min/km, though).
Started as badly as last week, overrunning 1 to the tune of 45 seconds or so (after the slightly odd run to the top of a hill for the start triangle and then coming straight back down). Settled technically after that, never feeling especially strong (and wasted a bit of time getting across the monster erosion gully at 6 and 7), but picked up a bit towards the end. A couple of minutes closer to the pace than last week, which is probably a fair reflection of the respective runs. Ended up 4th (albeit a distant 4th).
Those who remember a certain era in Melbourne may be interested to hear that Franco Cozzo's Footscray premises are up for sale. (Looking at this story saw me detour to
visitfootscray.com, a website which, I think it can safely be assumed, has nothing to do with either Tourism Victoria or the City of Maribyrnong). These days most of the annoying TV advertising seems to be our taxes at work, in the form of the thinly disguised Victorian Liberal Party ads that appear at least once in every Commonwealth Games ad break.