Octopus at Red Beach

Sat. 11KM Red Beach to Woorim and back.

Sun 11KM Roo+Lake - I'm just starting to feel like a runner again!

Sat. I ran with my shoes on ! The blisters from last week still haven't healed!

A heavy shower meant the beach was near deserted. But the clouds and rain soon blew over and I ran largely in sunshine.

Council had closed off the beach at Woorim 50m before the stormwater outlet, looked like they were trying to do some anti erosion measures.

The giant tutle I had seen last week must have been dead as the remains of its carcass were on the beach.

The only other thing of note was "a giant starfish" washed up near the end of my run.

I insisted Natalie and the kids walk up to see it, turns out it was an octopus! I said I was brought up in London where we didn't get to see either!

Monnas

If anyone hasn't read it yet, there is a really excellent interview with Monnas on Younger Legs

Keith Bateman M54 5000m 15m52.1

Fri 5.00am ran 11KM Roo+Lake slowly in the rain.

Last night in the NSW State titles in Sydney Keith Bateman (M54) ran 5000m in a fantastic 15m52.1 which improved the NSW M50 record by 10 secs and was just 3 secs shy of the Australian M50 record! In a couple of months Keith will be 55 y.o. and he will have no problems breaking National records then. Pete Magill says that's a 93.93% Age Graded performance!

This was a momentous run ! Congratulations!

Results also confirm good runs from Brisbane locals Jared Hauschildt, Jay Twist and Ronnie's son, Johnathon Peters.

Men 5000 metre Open
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Name Year Team Finals
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1 Haber, Anthony ACT 14:19.16
2 2931 Dessaix-Chin, Russ Syu (Sydney 14:26.44
3 Hauschildt, Jared Queensland 14:34.99
4 Twist, Jay Queensland 14:39.73
5 1498 Shepherd, Vincent Bla (Blackto 14:41.34
6 390 Peters, Jonathan Queensland 14:50.60
7 3281 Keem, Barry Kej (Kembla 14:54.42
8 Ridings, Liam ACT 15:06.51
9 2809 Dhaliwal, Chamkaur Please Selec 15:11.31
10 724 Cope, Nicholas Rbh (Randwic 15:12.03
11 578 Cox, Matthew Ban (Banksto 15:15.62
12 1152 baldacchino, danie Asw (Asics W 15:28.10
13 676 McPherson, Barton Rbh (Randwic 15:29.56
14 3331 Whiteley, Robin Asw (Asics W 15:36.97
15 1835 Bowd, Cale Please Selec 15:41.31
16 2415 Bellemore, Nichola Syu (Sydney 15:48.80
17 1456 bateman, keith Ssr (Sydney 15:52.10
18 845 Bidwell, Matthew Please Selec 15:54.42
19 2619 Roche, Kieran Hil (Hills A 16:03.91
20 1368 Brady, Matt Hun(Hunter T 16:15.51
21 3007 Dalgleish, Cameron Please Selec 16:17.42
22 655 Considine, Martin Rbh (Randwic 16:21.96
23 2720 Ilgen, Shane Hun(Hunter T 16:23.07
24 1909 Black, Xavier Utn (Uts Nor 16:26.92
25 2089 Booth, Oskar Please Selec 16:28.69
26 1733 Ladd, Ryan Cbt (Campbel 16:33.96
27 2442 Hislop, Campbell Asw (Asics W 16:48.36
28 608 Marciano, Daniel Ban (Banksto 16:52.40
29 2191 moore, jacob Cbt (Campbel 16:55.48
30 3358 Bulloch, Wayne Ssr (Sydney 16:57.01
31 2381 Palethorpe, James Crh(Cumberla 16:57.80
32 2672 timms, martin Bathurst 17:02.46
33 1826 Brooks, Charles Please Selec 17:22.18
34 1087 Wood, Michael Hil (Hills A 17:38.88
35 2825 Varadarajan, Vivek Hil (Hills A 17:45.21
36 1459 Wylie, Dennis Ssr (Sydney 17:57.58
37 426 Sharpe, Bradley Utn (Uts Nor 18:36.90
38 2869 Adler, Benjamin Rbh (Randwic 18:43.14
39 1436 Bruning, Paul Ssr (Sydney 19:12.87
40 1079 Rose, Ian Hil (Hills A 19:30.55
41 702 Griffin, Guy Rbh (Randwic 20:35.77
42 1223 Barnes, James Bma (Blue Mo 20:39.42
43 1439 Davie, EJ Ssr (Sydney 21:14.26
44 1078 Williams, Dennis Hil (Hills A 21:19.73
45 1224 Spinney, John Bma (Blue Mo 22:10.68
-- 594 Harrison, James Ban (Banksto DNF
-- 2801 Walsh, Gerard Ssr (Sydney DNF
-- McTaggart, Scott ACT DNF

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Humidity in the Tropics

Wed eve 11KM Roo+Lake

Thurs eve 6K Roo

Nice and steady, was thinking a little bit about my running gait. Trying to get up onto my toes and tried to get the arm action into a good rhythm because my belief is I must look fairly shocking right now!

It is humid as !

My choice is run early at 5.00am it is only 25 O C but 80% humidity or when I get home from work like tonight when at 5.30pm it was 28.4 O C and 64% humidity!

Of course I could decide to run at lunchtime but 33.2 O C and 47% would keep me sweating an hour after a cold shower!

Date/Time EST	Temp °C	App Temp °C	Dew Point °C	Rel Hum %	Delta T °C	Wind					Press hPa	Rain since 9 am mm
						Dir	Speed km/h	Gust km/h	Speed knots	Gust knots
28/07:30pm	27.7	29.1	20.3	64	4.9	NNE	13	22	7	12	1008.3	0.0
28/07:00pm	28.0	29.8	20.3	63	5.1	NNE	11	20	6	11	1008.4	0.0
28/06:30pm	28.3	30.1	20.3	62	5.3	NNE	11	19	6	10	1008.6	0.0
28/06:00pm	28.4	30.8	20.9	64	5.0	NNE	9	20	5	11	1008.3	0.0
28/05:30pm	28.4	30.5	20.9	64	5.0	NNE	11	26	6	14	1007.7	0.0
28/05:00pm	28.3	29.5	20.6	63	5.1	NNE	15	24	8	13	1007.4	0.0
28/04:30pm	28.7	30.3	19.9	59	5.8	NNE	11	22	6	12	1007.7	0.0
28/04:00pm	29.9	31.0	19.6	54	6.7	NNE	13	20	7	11	1007.8	0.0
28/03:30pm	31.8	32.3	18.4	45	8.7	NE	13	22	7	12	1007.7	0.0
28/03:00pm	32.2	32.0	18.4	44	8.9	NE	17	24	9	13	1007.9	0.0
28/02:30pm	32.8	33.0	19.3	45	8.9	ENE	17	24	9	13	1008.2	0.0
28/02:00pm	32.9	33.5	19.4	45	8.9	ENE	15	28	8	15	1008.5	0.0
28/01:30pm	32.8	33.7	20.0	47	8.5	ENE	15	20	8	11	1009.0	0.0
28/01:00pm	33.2	34.6	20.4	47	8.5	ENE	13	24	7	13	1009.2	0.0
28/12:30pm	32.7	34.4	20.2	47	8.3	NE	11	17	6	9	1009.5	0.0
28/12:00pm	32.7	34.3	19.9	46	8.5	NE	11	17	6	9	1009.5	0.0
28/11:30am	32.3	34.3	19.9	48	8.2	ENE	9	17	5	9	1010.1	0.0
28/11:00am	32.0	33.1	18.9	45	8.5	ENE	11	17	6	9	1010.3	0.0
28/10:30am	31.5	33.5	19.2	48	8.0	NE	7	11	4	6	1010.6	0.0
28/10:00am	31.0	33.6	20.0	52	7.3	ENE	6	15	3	8	1011.0	0.0
28/09:30am	29.2	30.7	19.8	57	6.2	E	11	17	6	9	1011.3	0.0
28/09:00am	29.7	32.3	20.5	57	6.1	E	7	13	4	7	1011.3	0.0
28/08:30am	28.8	31.5	20.3	60	5.6	NW	6	9	3	5	1011.5	0.0
28/08:00am	27.7	30.2	19.8	62	5.1	NNE	6	11	3	6	1011.4	0.0
28/07:30am	27.2	29.7	19.0	61	5.3	S	4	9	2	5	1011.7	0.0
28/07:00am	26.5	28.8	18.6	62	5.0	S	4	11	2	6	1011.8	0.0
28/06:30am	24.9	26.5	18.3	66	4.2	WSW	7	11	4	6	1011.5	0.0
28/06:00am	24.3	26.7	18.7	71	3.6	WSW	4	11	2	6	1011.1	0.0
28/05:30am	24.2	27.7	19.5	75	3.0	CALM	0	0	0	0	1011.1	0.0
28/05:00am	25.0	29.4	21.3	80	2.4	CALM	0	2	0	1	1010.8	0.0
28/04:30am	25.2	28.8	21.3	79	2.6	NNW	4	9	2	5	1010.4	0.0
28/03:30am	24.8	28.6	20.1	75	3.0	CALM	0	6	0	3	1010.7	0.0
28/03:00am	25.3	28.8	20.3	74	3.3	S	2	7	1	4	1011.1	0.0
28/01:30am	25.6	30.1	21.5	78	2.7	CALM	0	6	0	3	1011.4	0.0
28/01:00am	25.7	30.4	22.0	80	2.5	CALM	0	6	0	3	1011.7	0.0
28/12:30am	25.6	29.6	22.1	81	2.3	NW	4	7	2	4	1011.8	0.0
28/12:00am	25.2	29.6	21.3	79	2.6	NNW	0	0	0	0	1011.9	0.0