Pool running 45:00 [3]
It may have gone smoothly up to Sydney but the last leg was rather less so; after 20 minutes doing laps of Mount Buller, I spotted that the flight track had switched to Canberra as a destination. Given the good flying level, I was thinking of possible scenarios as to why Melbourne Airport might have been closed, of which the one which actually happened (a fire alarm in the control tower) was amongst the less unpleasant. By the time we landed in Canberra, Melbourne was open again so we got going quickly after refuelling, and ended up getting in around 2 1/2 hours late.
After a not-especially-productive afternoon at work (at least I cleared my in-box and crunched enough numbers to ascertain that even if the second half of the Australian summer is average the summer will still be the hottest on record), a crowded, delayed, train trip (what holidays?), and the walk home from the station with my gear in 38 degrees, it was time to do a bit of exercise, if only in the hope of keeping myself awake a bit longer. With some apprehension about its crowdedness, I headed for Northcote pool.
It was busy, but manageably so - found a bit of space once far enough away from the edges. I might be below the 10th percentile of the age distribution at some Summer Series events but I was definitely above the 90th percentile here - mostly teenagers and near-teenagers, but also a few of the demographic whose conversation contained words like "startup" and "investment groups". The session itself wasn't super-energetic, but pleased to get it on the board.