Run 30:00 [3] 5.2 km (5:46 / km)
For the second day in a row, the atmospheric conditions threw a curveball for my plans, which were to do the Wednesday night street event at Mitcham. It was expected that a wind change would go through mid-to-late afternoon (which would clear out the smoke) and that there was a chance of storms with that. The storms were more intense than expected, and although we didn't get the 44mm in 30 minutes and 110 km/h wind gusts that Avalon did, I thought 'this could be trouble' when there was a lightning strike close to the rail line at Collingwood station. It was indeed trouble; we were stuck for 40 minutes before going back to Victoria Park, at which point I thought that walking home 45 minutes in the rain was a better option than waiting for buses (having heard that some people were still waiting at 8pm, I think I got that one right, although with lightning still about, some of the parkland sections were a bit nerve-wracking).
Eventually got in the door at home at 7.02 (about 1.10 after I'd planned), which obviously meant I wasn't going to get to Mitcham for a 7.00 start (especially as, as I was to discover on the run, the traffic was still at middle-of-peak-hour-in-school-term levels), so plan B was to go back out into the rain, which was starting to ease by then, and do something roughly equivalent to the C course I would have done at Mitcham. This worked out reasonably - I was certainly warmed up - although it was still rather hard work for what should have been an easy 30 minutes, and the quad gave me enough indications on the small hills here to suggest that it might have been problematic on the larger hills of Mitcham.
As you might imagine, Darebin Creek was pumping.
Finally got home to dry out properly, get something to eat and then launch into a teleconference about the finer details of OA constitutional and governance amendments. #somepeoplehaveallthefun