Run 2:32:00 [3] 28.2 km (5:23 / km)
Recovered some confidence going into the next couple of weeks with a steady if unspectacular long run, helped by the first decent Sunday running conditions for a while. Took on the Apollo Parkways hills, probably for the last time (unless I do a Greensborough street-O), and various other bits of hilliness through the middle stages. Not sparkling but did the necessary, and was happy enough to do an extra loop at the end to take it out past 2.30 (felt it was too close to the big day to take it further than that, although I had something left in me). A bit of hamstring tightness around 20k but settled down again by the end; no sign of back issues on the run itself but tightened up afterwards.
As noted in comments, my impending move means I've abandoned the alphabetical quest in a formal sense but I still wanted to get to Aqueduct Drive in St. Helena (one of the most remote streets on the list) in the name of clearing unfinished business, after a couple of false starts earlier in the summer. I'm not going to try anything similar in my new council area of Darebin - much of its area is in the uninteresting running country of Preston and Reservoir.
I made the mistake of picking up the Weekend Australian getting onto the plane. They spent more than a page rehashing all of the old allegations about our data and some new ones besides - the retired accountant I mentioned a couple of weeks back got a good run. (If it's measured by column inches of criticism, they appear to think that I and my colleagues are about 10 times as reprehensible as Gary Glitter). Perhaps even worse was a column by Robert Gottliebsen on the East-West Link in which he stopped only just short of calling on Tony Abbott to send in the Army to remove the Andrews government by force.