Endomondo Running Workout: 28.05 km in 2h:35m:09s
Well, extraordinarily the rain vanished this morning so it was pretty easy to get out. I needed to do a long run this week because the last couple of weeks have been a bit short (quick & hard, but short), which means I was going rain, hail or shine, but there's no doubt that shine is much the easiest.
On a technical side note, I upgraded my mobile phone OS to Froyo (it's a silly name, but it reflects the adolescent humour of the guys who write OSes) which has in fact been out for a while, so ought to have had the bugs ironed out, but in fact on a test run yesterday was playing up badly in the GPS department. It took 2 kilometers to find the satellites yesterday (about 10 minutes) where previously it was about 30-odd seconds, i.e. the time it takes to get down the front path. Today was worse - It took nearly 4 km to get a fix on the satellites & then 24 km later just stopped. Meantime whatever it was doing caused Endomondo to add 3 fictitious kilometers (Endomondo tries to work out when you've stopped for traffic lights so it's a bit sensitive to interruptions in signal). That sort of balances out; I think it might have been more like a 30 km run, but 28 will do.
Nothing really new today but we tried a three stage approach because we had two new members, so we did 5 km around the golf course, then 9 km around the back of Arnecliffe, then I did an extra 14 around the airport. It was all pretty wet. It's amazing to me that 10 meters from the river, and about 5 meters higher than the low tide level, Marrickville's engineers & builders have managed to build paths that don't drain. In places the paths are 10-12 cm under water; but they're only puddles, 10 meters away from a perfectly dry path. Seems wrong to me. Anyway, it's not really a big problem, I can run with wet feet.
The Arncliffe spur - which is pretty much 100% bush on the Wolli Creek side - was a small waterfall, even though it hadn't rained for 24 hours. Well, 12 hours. Still, it's amazing for how long water is retained on top of a hill. All this hill running practice must be worth something; I nearly managed to spring up the rocks like an aging gazelle.
Did I mention that the first wattles are out? Spring is coming!
Well, extraordinarily the rain vanished this morning so it was pretty easy to get out. I needed to do a long run this week because the last couple of weeks have been a bit short (quick & hard, but short), which means I was going rain, hail or shine, but there's no doubt that shine is much the easiest.
On a technical side note, I upgraded my mobile phone OS to Froyo (it's a silly name, but it reflects the adolescent humour of the guys who write OSes) which has in fact been out for a while, so ought to have had the bugs ironed out, but in fact on a test run yesterday was playing up badly in the GPS department. It took 2 kilometers to find the satellites yesterday (about 10 minutes) where previously it was about 30-odd seconds, i.e. the time it takes to get down the front path. Today was worse - It took nearly 4 km to get a fix on the satellites & then 24 km later just stopped. Meantime whatever it was doing caused Endomondo to add 3 fictitious kilometers (Endomondo tries to work out when you've stopped for traffic lights so it's a bit sensitive to interruptions in signal). That sort of balances out; I think it might have been more like a 30 km run, but 28 will do.
Nothing really new today but we tried a three stage approach because we had two new members, so we did 5 km around the golf course, then 9 km around the back of Arnecliffe, then I did an extra 14 around the airport. It was all pretty wet. It's amazing to me that 10 meters from the river, and about 5 meters higher than the low tide level, Marrickville's engineers & builders have managed to build paths that don't drain. In places the paths are 10-12 cm under water; but they're only puddles, 10 meters away from a perfectly dry path. Seems wrong to me. Anyway, it's not really a big problem, I can run with wet feet.
The Arncliffe spur - which is pretty much 100% bush on the Wolli Creek side - was a small waterfall, even though it hadn't rained for 24 hours. Well, 12 hours. Still, it's amazing for how long water is retained on top of a hill. All this hill running practice must be worth something; I nearly managed to spring up the rocks like an aging gazelle.
Did I mention that the first wattles are out? Spring is coming!
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