Pool running 45:00 [3] 0.7 km (1:04:17 / km)
First time since I've moved here that I've checked out my new local - Northcote. It's within long walking distance (15-20 minutes) on mornings when I don't have a plane to catch, and has a good long deep end in the outside pool, although I think Fitzroy will still be my preferred option. The one negative is the showers, which appear to operate on a drip irrigation system.
This was a pretty early session due to aforementioned plane (to Adelaide and then Port Lincoln), coming off a late night because I was in an IOF teleconference from 5.30 until midnight (with a bit of a break for their lunch/my dinner). Didn't feel as bad as I thought I might, and didn't feel as sleepy during the day as I thought I might, either. (Not being at work probably helped, although it would have been an interesting day at work after the publication of a new data set and associated paper overnight in the US establishing that global warming didn't stop, or even slow down that much, in 1998).
The other news of the day is that we've got the word from the Sports Commission on funding, and it's reasonably good news on balance - the total amount we'll be getting is actually slightly up on this year (and that doesn't include the extra funding round mentioned in the earlier comments thread). However, it will all be directed at participation in some form or other, and we almost certainly won't be allowed to use it to fund national teams, so we will need to do some rearrangement of what we spend our "own" money on if we want to be able to support those at something close to the existing level.