The end of the road

Quick look at the program marks tonight as the last of my road runs - it's all grass running from here, with lots of easy 30 minute sessions. I'll do Sunday at Centennial Park, that's only 1 hour 15 minutes @ 5 min km pace.

Rolled out of work a bit after five to a quite a number of cow-orkers suggesting I was insane. Geez, if they haven't worked that out already...

Truth be told, rain aside it wasn't actually that bad. The humidity meant that it was relatively mild, so although quickly wet I wasn't too cold. The rain was that saturating type, not heavy, but quite dense. The footpaths were drenched, with quite a lot of standing water about the place.

As mentioned yesterday, the schedule was 1 hour 15 minutes for 17km. I'd had a bit of a fiddle with one of the routes home via the city in GMaps Pedometer, coming up with a route that went down the Pacific Highway from St Leonards to the Harbour Bridge, right under the bridge to Observatory Park and down to Argyle Street, down the little spiral near the Pallisades Hotel to Hickon Road up to the Pyrmont Bridge, through there to the Anzac Bridge, and along Victoria Road and over the Gladesville Bridge, hook right under the bridge to the stairs into Huntley's Point, past the ferry stop and the school to the pedestrian bridge, and then west along Victoria Road to the Punt Road intersection.

Felt fine through the run, just couldn't really push too hard as it was particularly slippery under foot and there was standing water everywhere - anyone noticed that the water flows down the ramp at the Pyrmont end of the Anzac Bridge? Traction was compromised in a few places - decorative pavers might look good but they're hell to run on. Also, refer to previous comments about metal surfaces on footpaths in Sydney.

Got to the nominated 17km point in 1 hour 15 minutes and 13 seconds. Eh, close enough. Blame the stairs. Rain had eased off at the end of the run, and only copped one drenching from passing cars. Made a point of getting straight into a hot shower, though, and a nice cup of tea warmed me from within, although as mentioned it wasn't that cold.

Cold has definitely receded and is probably just a little pressure in the sinuses. My nose isn't blocked at all and my headache's pretty well gone. Wondering if it simply wasn't an anti-body reaction to something.