last hard workout

Yesterday was the last opportunity for anything resembling a long run before the big one (Sun 27th). I was torn, as usual, between wanting something testing and not wanting to injure myself.

The compromise was a 27k-er done at a reasonably easy pace, but including a couple of nasty-ish hills. Also, it was done in the relative heat of late morning/early afternoon, rather than my usual crack-of-dawn routine.

As an aside, I’m starting to develop a healthy distaste for Montrose. Don’t get me wrong, it’s all very touristy and tree-ed but, unless you’re coming from Mount Dandenong itself, there’s no way of getting there without bloody great hills.

The section of Cantebury Road coming into Montrose is particularly annoying.

Music
More songs for the “last 10k of a marathon, aural adrenaline shot” file:

These are out:

Emiliana Torrini - all her stuff is too chilled out
Jex Saarelhart - London blues - fabulous song, but uses a mind-bending time signature that doesn’t lend itself to running
The Cure - Disintegration - even the “up” songs on this record make me feel like taking a couple of valium and lying down for the rest of the week.

These are in:

The Beatles - Tommorrow never knows
Fiona Apple - Fast as you can
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats - a very low key song, but very insistent beat
The Hives - Hate to say I told you so
Fishbone - Properties of Propaganda. Great bassline, but stupid lyrics, especially the way they try to make this rhyme:

It’s the properties of propaganda
when your feet don’t move but you don’t know where you standa

That always makes me laugh.