Street-O @ Eltham Parklands

Warm, muggy night with thunderclouds overhead and lightning flashes in the distance. But the rain held off during the event, thankfully. I dithered badly at the start, heading up to #16, then changing my mind and heading back down again to #9. It made sense at the time.

Walking well through the rest of the hilly course, but lost a control at #2 - several of us were looking for it under a light pole, when Tina waltzes past and punches it. Oh, that light pole. Onwards and upwards with a last-minute gamble to #18 (a 5-pointer), but didn't make it back in time and lost 3 points for being 41 seconds late.

6.6 km in 9:24/km

As this is my last Street-O for a couple of weeks (I'm going on holiday), I said goodbye to a few people. Geoff asked if I'd been ill - yeah, sorta, I guess. He's a subtle/polite chap, so I put him out of his misery and admitted that yes, my running has been crap. He suggested that it might be low iron levels; apparently one of the A-Course girls had a similar slump in energy a few years ago, and it was traced to a low iron count. An interesting idea, and one that I might follow up when I get back. Along with eating better, and going to the gym, and... what was the other thing?

Also walked this morning, 5.2 km.