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Adelaide Marathon Campaign - Week 7 of 16
A touch of ultra-weather descended here today, with cold, wind, rain and snow settling in for a determined stay. We reached our maximum temperature just after midnight and then the temperature just fell and fell and kept falling all day! Really bizarre stuff. Unluckily I had to traipse around the city in the morning and got completely soaked, so I'm putting it down as cross-training because it's exhausting work.
One of the reasons for traipsing around the city was to visit my doctor who had less than brilliant news re recent blood tests. A doubling of the medication I'm on made no difference to my condition other than to massively ramp up the side effects (mainly the insomnia I keep prattling on about). However the good news is that because it was a botched effort I can now take a complete four weeks off the drugs altogether for a bit of recovery before we launch into a new batch of guinea pig trials. So, at least I should be able to get some sleep again before that all starts.
Walking around in the cold and the rain wasn't ideal therapy for my shin splints and the buggers did do some serious moaning and whingeing for a while. Can't say however that I'm missing running just at the moment as the weather really is very foul. Today we had more rain in 12 hours than we've had in the whole of June to date, for example.
Well we can only wait now and see what tomorrow may bring.
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Adelaide Marathon Campaign - Week 7 of 16
