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Sunday Jun 27, 2010 #
8 AM
Run 2:02:00 [3] 25.1 km (4:52 / km)
Long run with Bruce from his place upriver to Eaglemont flats, then back looping through Studley Park, having to do some mud-dodging at times (although we didn't spend much time on the near-river singletrack which would have been very slippery today). Longest I've done since the hamstring injury - it was a bit awkward on steeper downhills but OK on the flat, although it fatigued a bit in the last half-hour. Otherwise did a reasonable job of handling the distance. Very pleasant morning - the skies cleared late enough to stop the night from getting very cold but early enough to produce a nice day.
The cyclists were out in force on the Yarra Boulevard in a race of some description, most likely a time trial as there weren't any packs and they were wearing numbers which were more or less sequential. From the pace differential shown by number 70 when passing number 71, the time trial probably hadn't been going for too long.
Some discussion of school report season on the run. Torren got a good one, unlike one of his classmates whose report was that he rolled around on the floor too much during "mat time". I presume that said rolling was not for the purpose of performing lower back and hamstring stretches.
At the World Cup this morning the cameras were celebrity-spotting and the commentator queried what Mick Jagger was doing at a US-Ghana game. I suspect there were actually quite a number of English supporters at the US-Ghana game, having booked tickets for it on the assumption that England would be playing in it (as they would have been had they done the expected and topped their group). At the last cricket World Cup there were a lot of unused tickets for Ireland-Bangladesh for the same reason (it was supposed to be Pakistan-India).
And the 'Age' has brought us another in the list of great euphemisms in a piece yesterday on the role of police informers - "colourful industrial relations expert". As the article was implying that the person concerned had an involvement in several murders I can understand why they didn't name names, although Mick Gatto has ways of showing his displeasure that don't involve defamation suits.
The cyclists were out in force on the Yarra Boulevard in a race of some description, most likely a time trial as there weren't any packs and they were wearing numbers which were more or less sequential. From the pace differential shown by number 70 when passing number 71, the time trial probably hadn't been going for too long.
Some discussion of school report season on the run. Torren got a good one, unlike one of his classmates whose report was that he rolled around on the floor too much during "mat time". I presume that said rolling was not for the purpose of performing lower back and hamstring stretches.
At the World Cup this morning the cameras were celebrity-spotting and the commentator queried what Mick Jagger was doing at a US-Ghana game. I suspect there were actually quite a number of English supporters at the US-Ghana game, having booked tickets for it on the assumption that England would be playing in it (as they would have been had they done the expected and topped their group). At the last cricket World Cup there were a lot of unused tickets for Ireland-Bangladesh for the same reason (it was supposed to be Pakistan-India).
And the 'Age' has brought us another in the list of great euphemisms in a piece yesterday on the role of police informers - "colourful industrial relations expert". As the article was implying that the person concerned had an involvement in several murders I can understand why they didn't name names, although Mick Gatto has ways of showing his displeasure that don't involve defamation suits.