tec trot thursday

Thursday means TecTrot and today, for shits and giggles, I did two laps of the 4.6km course. First was 19:08 and the second 19:27. Did a bit more to make it a 10km lunchtime run. Sweated buckets, but happy to have got in a low-middle distance run. I've been getting the long runs done - just - and plenty of shorter stuff but think I've been slacking on the 10-20km range. So hurrah for me!

Hope you like the picture. Wanted to get the arc of the bow of the QE2 nd the arcs of the Opera House sails. Black and white because I am so the artist.

My left ITB, the one that has been tight for a while, feels better today. This may be due to some stretching I did last night that was at best weird and at worst plain stupid. The stretch in question; lay on your back, keep one leg straight and bend the other 90 degrees-ish at the knee. Twist your trunk so that the bent knee comes over the straight leg and gets as close to the ground as possible. Arms are typically out straight from the shoulders, flat on the ground. Not sure what the stretch is called. So I decided last night, having gone to bed alone as Sal is still in NZ, to sleep in that position and see if this would, overnight, loosen the ITB. Arms out, trunk twisted, knee over I fell asleep. I'm not sure how long I'd been asleep, but a while later I awoke with no feeling in one of my legs (I already can't remember which one.) I could wiggle my toes and as I shifted position, sort of rolling and dragging myself with my arms, I got a sort of pins and needles sensation and regained the feeling in my leg. I nodded back off in a more relaxed position. And at some stage in the night my brother (big shout out) featured in a dream snippet. I've recalled no part of any dream for a while and ths was only a bit. I was in what seemd to be an office corridor, went through a door into a well equipped kitchen that was massively untidy and got in trouble for something or other. There was someone else there - the housemate I assume - and the kitchen looked nothing lik my bro's. But it's my dream and I know where it was meant to be. So there.

Traffic chaos update. This from the local rag

Elderly people were forced to scale fences to escape the Botanic Gardens - after authorities decided to lock the gates

Escape! Old people are escaping! Made me chuckle. More traffic chaos expected as Dick Cheney arries in town. We're told to expect sudden road closures without warning when this oldie wants to get across town, presumably taking routes that avoid as many goddamned hippies as possible.