I've done a couple of runs in the last month or so. The first was the 21km Melbourne half marathon, part of the Melbourne running festival. The second was the 14km city-to-sea, which is the Melbourne version of the more famous city-to-surf run in Sydney. The half marathon started outside the MCG, headed South for a loop around Albert Park, and returned North again to finish inside the MCG. The city-to-sea started just South of Flinders Street station, taking a similar route, but headed West to the coast at St Kilda following the Albert Park loop. Both runs were fairly flat with no hills to speak of, and unusually for Melbourne, the weather was perfect.
Both days started with a taxi ride to the city, due to the complete lack of public transport early on a Sunday. I didn't train as well I should've, but went out fairly hard in the half marathon, basically just holding out until the end. I was still way off two hours, finishing in 2:05:55. I took the city-to-sea a bit easier, finishing the 14km run in 1:22:55. Unfortunately I haven't got around to doing much running since then, but I hope to get back to it following my not so well deserved vacation in Vietnam.
