Here Comes The Flood

Tues 5th Feb

6.5k 30:41 @ 4:43 HR 153.
Third day in a row of running in the rain now and it was quite heavy. There was another 42 mm in the rain guage this morning. It has now got to the point where even along the cycle path where I have been running that large puddles are becoming permanent features. As well this morning, the creek had risen enough to be 15cm over the top of the path where it crossed the creek. This made for 10 metres of splashing to get across. It took me back to my days in the steeplechase on the track. As it is an out and back course, I had to negotiate this twice and it was certainly deeper on the way back.

That's about as fast as I want to go right now. The leg seems to have held up. Aim now is to start increasing the distance at a slower pace.


Here is another Congolese video. This time a live performance by Bella Bella from the early 80s including some terrific if somewhat badly dressed dancers.