Run 44:00 [3] 9.0 km (4:53 / km)
It's a long time since I've run at lunchtime - mainly because the main reason why I might do a Monday run at lunchtime is because of having a Labor policy committee meeting on Monday evening, and there hasn't been one since the start of last year's federal election campaign. This meant it's the first time I've been on the Tan for a while (thus ascertaining that this isn't a good year for running a fast time, thanks to building works), and also the first time that I've had to dodge the Arts Centre building works too.
The run wasn't as bad as I'd feared in the morning, although still felt like it was reasonably hard work for a recovery run (it was somewhat faster than an MFR Monday night which makes a difference). I'd also thought that going at lunchtime might be useful for warm-weather acclimatisation but it didn't warm up until after lunch. Maybe tomorrow.
One of the new sights on Southbank was something called The Ludlow Formation, which turned out to be a restaurant. This reminded me of one of the more memorable discussions in the Sydney Morning Herald's Column 8, which was about which piece of NSW road infrastructure would make the best title for a Robert Ludlum novel. Their initial suggestion was 'The Calga Interchange', I liked someone's suggestion of the tale of a Perth drug lord, 'The Western Distributor', but Victoria can surely outdo anything in NSW with 'The Arcadia Duplication' (a new bit of freeway on the way to Shepparton).