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Wednesday Dec 30, 2015 #
7 PM
Run 51:40 [3] * 9.6 km (5:23 / km) +170m 4:57 / km
spiked:19/19c
Perhaps Metro was trying to send me a message. I was 20 minutes later than I'd planned on after falling victim to their occasional practice of station-skipping - the performance indicators in their contract are the percentage of late trains and the percentage of cancelled trains, but they're not penalised for missing stations so they sometimes do it to make up time. I think you can reasonably call this a rort.
I eventually did get to the venue around 6.45, to be greeted by the news that the ABC had apparently given me a gender reassignment. Perhaps they added 30 years to my age while they were at it, because that's the way I ran tonight - and I can't even blame the heat (which was significant, around 34) because I felt terrible inside the first 200 metres, and within a few hundred more concluded that I would be doing well just to jog around the course. No idea what went wrong given that I've been running well the last few days, and not sure what it means for subsequent training.
One novelty tonight was the first colour map I've seen in Melbourne street-O for about 20 years. Hopefully it starts a trend. I think I got the route choice pretty right, although I forgot to take my watch out so it's hard to be sure.
Other news of the day was an entry into the ranks of the World's Dumbest (would-be) Terrorists, in the form of a man who faced a British court yesterday, having come to the attention of security services when he posted on Twitter seeking advice from readers on what he should bomb.
And I thought I might be able to put my knowledge of potential lack of cricket next week to profitable use, but an inspection of the odds suggests that the TAB can read a weather forecast too.
I eventually did get to the venue around 6.45, to be greeted by the news that the ABC had apparently given me a gender reassignment. Perhaps they added 30 years to my age while they were at it, because that's the way I ran tonight - and I can't even blame the heat (which was significant, around 34) because I felt terrible inside the first 200 metres, and within a few hundred more concluded that I would be doing well just to jog around the course. No idea what went wrong given that I've been running well the last few days, and not sure what it means for subsequent training.
One novelty tonight was the first colour map I've seen in Melbourne street-O for about 20 years. Hopefully it starts a trend. I think I got the route choice pretty right, although I forgot to take my watch out so it's hard to be sure.
Other news of the day was an entry into the ranks of the World's Dumbest (would-be) Terrorists, in the form of a man who faced a British court yesterday, having come to the attention of security services when he posted on Twitter seeking advice from readers on what he should bomb.
And I thought I might be able to put my knowledge of potential lack of cricket next week to profitable use, but an inspection of the odds suggests that the TAB can read a weather forecast too.