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Monday Mar 5, 2012 #
7 AM
Swimming 33:00 [2] 1.0 km (33:00 / km)
One of my better swims for a while, on a nice morning. Was working pretty hard by the final third. Amazing how much less boring a swim is when it lasts for 10% less time to cover the same distance.
Water in other places has been very much in the news over the last few days. In some places it's beyond previous records - already in Numurkah, and probably Nathalia and perhaps Wagga. In other places it's nothing we haven't seen before, and there's been plenty of evidence of the benefits of sensible planning in Canberra (total properties flooded as far as I know: zero). In other places there's been evidence of a lack of sensible planning - when a building has been flooded for the fourth time in just over a year, it's probably an indicator that it shouldn't have been built there in the first place.
Water in other places has been very much in the news over the last few days. In some places it's beyond previous records - already in Numurkah, and probably Nathalia and perhaps Wagga. In other places it's nothing we haven't seen before, and there's been plenty of evidence of the benefits of sensible planning in Canberra (total properties flooded as far as I know: zero). In other places there's been evidence of a lack of sensible planning - when a building has been flooded for the fourth time in just over a year, it's probably an indicator that it shouldn't have been built there in the first place.
7 PM
Run 33:00 [3] 7.0 km (4:43 / km)
Monday night is supposed to be a recovery run, but someone forgot to tell tonight's crowd (a select group), who were doing hill surges which I was sort of hanging on to (a bad day for the Achilles didn't help) around the Yarra tracks from Reuben's. Settled into it, eventually.
We didn't see any snakes en route which meant we didn't get the opportunity to put into effect anything said in the all-staff e-mail today about procedures for dealing with them (important at our remote sites but not especially relevant to head office). Spent a bit of time post-run talking about recent political developments, and various attempts in the past to get orienteering publicity (including a subediting epic fail in 1998 when David Colls' local paper announced that he was off to the world jaywalking championships).
We didn't see any snakes en route which meant we didn't get the opportunity to put into effect anything said in the all-staff e-mail today about procedures for dealing with them (important at our remote sites but not especially relevant to head office). Spent a bit of time post-run talking about recent political developments, and various attempts in the past to get orienteering publicity (including a subediting epic fail in 1998 when David Colls' local paper announced that he was off to the world jaywalking championships).