Run 38:00 [3] 6.4 km (5:56 / km)
Headed down to the Peninsula today to a near-completed house (the certificate of occupancy is expected to come through this week) to deliver a carload of stuff and then spend most of the rest of the day in front of the cricket.
Something I've had sort of in my mind for a while is to seek to visit at some point all of Victoria's national parks (for these purposes, driving along one edge of it doesn't count as a "visit", so I'm not counting Murray-Sunset or Hattah-Kulkyne, bisected by the Ouyen-Mildura highway). I haven't had much in the way of spare weekends this year so haven't made any inroads into this, but thought I'd bag some low-hanging fruit here, in the form of Churchill National Park in Melbourne's southeast suburbs. (Presumably its "national park" status is a historical quirk as it's really just an area of remnant bush on the suburban fringe).
It was actually quite a nice spot for a run, starting out along an old aqueduct before climbing gradually to a spur, before dropping back. I imagine there would be some good longer runs here too, linking up with the tracks in Lysterfield. Probably not a lot of orienteering potential though (even if we had access, which I presume we don't) - most of the bush is pretty scungy, as it is across the road in the Police Paddocks which used to be mapped, although I've never run there.
Calf a little tight in the second half but seemed to handle it reasonably well, so I'm thinking that I can probably start to step things up a little. Felt somewhat better running today than Friday, too (probably because I've actually had proper sleeps the last two nights).