Freaky Friday

Woke up this morning to find a dense fog over the suburb and apparently the rest of Brisbane. This didn't really burn off till about 8:15 am in The Gap.

Kewell was having his sports day at school and the first events were what are called the Mini-marathon. For his grade 3, this is about 500m. So I went up to the school and watched him compete. The start is very frantic and he got jostled severly so was 15m behind the leaders after only 30m. But he stuck with it an ended up finishing strongly for 6th.

I then headed off to work. At a set of lights just close to work, I had the misfortune of being hit side on by a car that failed to stop at the red light at an intersection. He mistook the green turn left arrow for a go and ploughed into me. Luckily I'm OK and even though the driver's side front and back doors were pushed in a fair way, I could still drive the car.

I just didn't feel like going out for a run at the end of the day and will go out tomorrow morning instead. This may have been a great move. Today was another warm day but a hot, dry westerly change came through late in the afternoon and set the temperatures soaring. Here are the readings for Brisbane City from the BOM website.

-------- Temp--Wind
07:00pm 27.5 W 11 k/hr
06:30pm 27.1 W 9 k/hr
06:00pm 28.0 W 11 k/hr
05:56pm 27.9 W 11 k/hr
05:30pm 22.8 CALM 0
05:00pm 24.3 E 9 k/hr
04:30pm 25.1 ENE 13 k/hr

It is mind boggling to think that it is still winter and I could have been running in 28C temperatures at 6 o'clock at night!