Run ((street-O)) 51:11 [3] *** 9.56 km (5:21 / km) +110m 5:04 / km
spiked:18/18c
A bit of a step up today with Wednesday night street-O after having not done a run longer than 30 minutes for a couple of weeks. The area was reasonably kind - Highbury Hill is flatter than many are.
The first three-quarters was reasonable from an injury perspective - a bit of discomfort (more so up hills or pushing off around corners) but fairly stable, not deteriorating gradually as had been the case the last couple of runs. Fell away somewhat in the last 10 minutes though (and by the end a few of my other intermittently troublesome bits were being troublesome, so I was glad to see the end). Lasted longer than the last two runs, but have also pulled up tighter and sorer afterwards, so will see what happens from here. Not getting a sense that I'm ready to go beyond running every second day yet.
Quite an interesting course - took a long time for me to finalise the details of what I was going to do. Seemed to be in the mid-range of what most people did (I dropped 4 and 10). Undoubtedly the longest courses were those of Simon Rouse and Bryan Ackerly, who forgot that it isn't a score event like it is in winter, and got all 20 controls when they only needed 18.
Mosquitoes were making their presence felt last weekend anywhere where there was, or had recently been, floodwater, and now they've made their way to Melbourne. I was swarmed this morning in possibly the least rural place in Victoria, waiting on my bike at the traffic lights outside Flinders Street Station.