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Monday Dec 21, 2009 #
Pool running 45:00 [3] 0.5 km (1:30:00 / km)
Pool running session to start the week, a bit earlier in the morning than I've been managing recently. (My start time recently has been governed by the arrival time of the morning paper, which has been creeping later and later but got back to a reasonably respectable 6.30 this morning). This meant more sunglare, but apart from that it was quite a nice session.
School holidays have started and traffic going into the city was fairly minimal, but not so minimal as to prevent one element of it having a deep and meaningful conversation with a William Street power pole.
Australia's headline-writers obviously aren't as well-educated as I thought they might have been, because I have yet to see any of them take the opportunity to use the headline "Something Rotten In The State of Denmark" after the disappointing outcome in Copenhagen.
School holidays have started and traffic going into the city was fairly minimal, but not so minimal as to prevent one element of it having a deep and meaningful conversation with a William Street power pole.
Australia's headline-writers obviously aren't as well-educated as I thought they might have been, because I have yet to see any of them take the opportunity to use the headline "Something Rotten In The State of Denmark" after the disappointing outcome in Copenhagen.
Lame walk-jog to fix lame injury 30:00 [3] 5.0 km (6:00 / km)
At lunchtime from work, taking the next step up - 1 min off/4 min on. The Polly Woodside provides quite a nice 4-minute loop for this, which I'll be hoping not to have to use on too many more occasions. The foot has improved considerably since Saturday (in any case it was more of an issue walking than running), and doesn't seem to have pulled up sore afterwards either, but the main injury still doesn't feel quite right and I don't feel that I'm making huge progress.
Use of AP for work-related purposes department: I'm currently in the process of updating the Australian long-term high-quality temperature data set (which is what has been keeping me occupied to sometimes-outlandish hours), and in particular scouring it for suspect observations. One which was flagged by one of my original checks was a maximum of 34.8 at Wagga on 24 March 2007. A look at the hourly observations showed hot conditions overnight, steady rain starting in the early morning, temperature dropping to 20 at 9 a.m. (which is the cutoff for maximum temperature - anything earlier goes into the previous day) and then continuing to fall through the day. I thought that sounded familiar, so I checked my log and it was familiar - 2007 NSW Sprint Champs day at Charles Sturt Uni. This enabled me to confirm that the 34.8 was definitely wrong.
(Another use of my training records for this purpose - my hard-copy diaries this time - was to resolve an inconsistency between a maximum of 13 and a highest hourly value of 17 for Canberra on 16 November 1988, a run I remembered well for being long, cold and very wet - it was in the middle of the HSC and one of the few occasions I ran home from school. On that occasion it was the hourly value that was wrong).
A final note on the interplay between training and weather is to note that the beach where I did the intervals session in between the fishermen and the 4WDs on 23 June is pretty well right in the firing line for Cyclone Laurence. I don't expect too much of the beach to be there tomorrow morning. Sand dunes give the caravan park (where I believe there are a few holdouts) some protection but if they get breached it could flood in a hurry; hoping for the best.
Use of AP for work-related purposes department: I'm currently in the process of updating the Australian long-term high-quality temperature data set (which is what has been keeping me occupied to sometimes-outlandish hours), and in particular scouring it for suspect observations. One which was flagged by one of my original checks was a maximum of 34.8 at Wagga on 24 March 2007. A look at the hourly observations showed hot conditions overnight, steady rain starting in the early morning, temperature dropping to 20 at 9 a.m. (which is the cutoff for maximum temperature - anything earlier goes into the previous day) and then continuing to fall through the day. I thought that sounded familiar, so I checked my log and it was familiar - 2007 NSW Sprint Champs day at Charles Sturt Uni. This enabled me to confirm that the 34.8 was definitely wrong.
(Another use of my training records for this purpose - my hard-copy diaries this time - was to resolve an inconsistency between a maximum of 13 and a highest hourly value of 17 for Canberra on 16 November 1988, a run I remembered well for being long, cold and very wet - it was in the middle of the HSC and one of the few occasions I ran home from school. On that occasion it was the hourly value that was wrong).
A final note on the interplay between training and weather is to note that the beach where I did the intervals session in between the fishermen and the 4WDs on 23 June is pretty well right in the firing line for Cyclone Laurence. I don't expect too much of the beach to be there tomorrow morning. Sand dunes give the caravan park (where I believe there are a few holdouts) some protection but if they get breached it could flood in a hurry; hoping for the best.