Run 1:00:00 [3] 11.1 km (5:24 / km)
Around the Yarra tracks from Clifton Hill - first time out here for a while. A bit of an improvement on the equivalent run last week but yesterday was better. Knee stiffness a little bit annoying early in runs but is loosening up reasonably well - certainly none of the pain evident when the injury was developing.
As you can imagine, today was a reasonably busy day at work, collating records broken. (My two favourites - the Burnett catchment's peak 1-day rainfall was 70% above its previous record (no wonder so much of Bundaberg is under water), and Gladstone's 4-day rainfall of 819.8 mm exceeded its previous record for a whole month).
There was an orienteering connection to one of the notable numbers, a daily rainfall of 709 mm at Mount Castle (although Upper Springbrook, with 744, did even better). Mount Castle is at the east end of the much-loved Goomburra Valley map, a steep, hard slog used for the 2000 Australia-NZ Challenge (which I'd wiped myself out of after an unfortunate altercation with a cricket pitch roller in a sprint race the previous day). It was run as a midweek event (between nationals on one weekend and APOC on the next) and, of the 30-odd starters in M21E, exactly seven finished - the six Challenge team members plus somebody from Hong Kong. Craig gets some bonus points for picking the most remote point on the map to DNF from.
And it seems we would have had some extra excitement if we'd repeated last year's Australia Day run this year: guest of honour at the Holdfast Bay ceremony was one T. Abbott (not sure with or without budgie smugglers). We could even have sniggered at his reference to Australia's convict origins, something which is definitely a faux pas in South Australia.