Long Wednesday goes longer

This morning's lesson is that if you wake at 5:10am, and your alarm is set for 5:30 so you can get out for a run, get up at 5:10 - do not remain in bed so that:
a) the alarm will frighten the crap out of you when it goes off,
b) you don't actually go back to sleep and have some freaky dream

Finally got out onto the road at 5:50am, and managed a pretty good quality 23.02km in 1h53m56s, running from Gladesville to the Bay Run, up Lilyfield Road to Victoria Road, the CBD via Anzac Bridge (where there was a solid headwind), over the Harbour Bridge into Kirrbilli, over the expressway into St Leonards Park in North Sydney, Crows Nest, and then in St Leonards itself. Pace was a couple of seconds under 5 min per km overall, but came off a bit once I hit Anzac Bridge. Thankfully, despite some rather ominous cloud cover, the rain held off and I managed to get through without getting rained on.

If the wind can keep up, and the rain hold off, this should hopefully help Rotary Park dry off. I ran on the grass through St Leonards Park and it was quite firm, with a surface not dissimilar to Rotary Park.

I'm starting to eke out the distance of the mid-week long run, so it was pleasing to get through it quite well this morning. Hopefully the 10.5km recovery run home won't be too bad tonight.