Run 40:00 [3] 9.0 km (4:27 / km)
First attempt at a speed session (fartlek) since the injury. I thought this might be horribly slow, both because it's my first go at speedwork, and because it was done earlier (like at dawn) than my speedwork sessions usually are. It was slow but not as bad as I'd feared (9.50), only a little slower than previous returns to speedwork after an easy period, and I felt OK for the most part.
Being out at 6.30 means that the traffic is dominated by Ute Man, and Ute Man doesn't give way to pedestrians when turning. This was a prelude to the worst traffic I can remember seeing at 7.30 in the morning on the way into town; I was definitely glad to be on the bike. This also took me past an ill-fortuned building site, near the Fairfield boathouse, where some action was taking place at long last. (The site was originally created by a factory fire in 2003 or thereabouts, then a squatter was killed by a wall collapse several months later; for a long time the site sported a 'Construction Commences Q1 2007' sign, but that disappeared last year).
Next challenge of the day was the first session of needlework on my calves for several months. They obviously needed it badly because they responded very strongly - so strongly that I was barely able to walk for several hours afterwards. This led me into a somewhat unsettling day on several fronts (none of them anything to do with orienteering).