Run 1:29:00 [3] 15.0 km (5:56 / km) +500m 5:05 / km
Early morning session from Lance and Wendy's. There are few flat options from there and I wasn't really looking for flat options (it was quite a challenge on a previous visit when I was looking for flat options because of an Achilles injury) - hilly for much of the way. After some initial ups and downs, climbed Mount Coot-tha via the Slaughter Falls track (thinking once at the top, looking at the view of the distant ranges, that this time yesterday there might just have been the novel sight of snow on the top of them) - this was a gentler climb than I expected, although fairly long, and while my hill-climbing wasn't brilliant nothing went horribly wrong. Across the top, which is up and down in itself, and then came off the northwest side where it felt like I lost all the height gained in about three minutes, before a less hilly return, apart from the final climb through the saddle back to the finish (which was stronger than any other climb today). Not a brilliant run, but probably a step up on what I've been doing in the last couple of weeks, especially later.
About to set forth to Europe (Oslo, via Dubai). I had been thinking of getting last night's flight and trying to get there in time to do the full five days of O-ringen, but it's just as well I didn't - last night's flight hasn't left yet (it's due out only 30 minutes before ours).
And there was a certain amount of schadenfreude today on hearing that one of our occasional nemeses, an NT government ministerial staffer, has been arrested on corruption charges....