Run race ((street-O)) 53:43 [4] * 10.72 km (5:01 / km)
spiked:22/23c
Street-O at Altona - switched to Tuesday night because of the prospect of a 40-degree night tomorrow night (and the knowledge that last time I took one of those on I wiped myself out for a couple of days, not something I want ahead of the weekend).
Again, didn't feel too brilliant; settled into a pace over the first few controls, but hit a bad patch in the middle (around the inevitable control on the jetty). Ted came through me around this time. Got a bit of a second wind heading into the last quarter, but then struck trouble at a control and lost 45 seconds - thrown a bit by a new fenced enclosure not on the map and an old one not on the ground, but if I'd been properly on the ball that wouldn't have mattered. That cost me my first sub-5 of the season (baby steps....), but felt as if I was making a bit of progress - although on a dead flat area and with reasonably benign conditions.
Of course, there was another sport which was rather more in the news today. I was a little surprised by the result - mainly because I can't recall a previous case where WADA had successfully appealed an insufficient-evidence finding (their successful appeals I'm aware of had involved inadequate penalties for guilty verdicts, or inadequate explanations for positive tests). That said, it's the result we've got; surely the message has got through by now for no-one to try something like this again (and I would be reasonably confident that Essendon were by no means the only club pushing boundaries in this area). A wooden-spoon season is something I think most Essendon supporters can live with if that's the end of the matter, but you'd have to wonder where the legal side of this will end.