Yeah, yeah, long time no see and all that…
 

 
So yesterday I went for a walk along the Glebe Foreshore after work. It was a beautiful Sydney spring day, and I had already done my exercise for the day (a swim before work) but I needed to check out Federal Park in Glebe to see if it had BBQs. It does.
 

 
It’s a nice walk there from work, down along Wentworth Park, around the high school to Blackwattle Bay, where the top photo was taken. Sydney CBD at sunset, as seen from the ruins of the Old Glebe Incinerator. The second photo was up around the corner from there, looking directly west.

Not only was it a nice evening for a walk, it was also good for my legs. I’ve been laid up with shins splints, for which I was repeatedly told I must rest rest rest! The damage is deep and so I have been pain free for about ten weeks or more but not allowed to start running. I have now started running again -with the caution that I must build up distances very slowly. Yesterday was not a running day, but a nice relaxed walk is always good for you. It was nice to be out doing something even if I couldn’t permit myself to run.
 

 
Above: looking back towards the city again, this time with ANZAC Bridge in view. Taken from the south western end of Bicentennial Park, on Rozelle Bay.

So I wandered, and stopped to take photos, and read signs about the historical importance of the places I passed -and had passed a hundred times before on previous runs without stopping. And I found the BBQ in Federal Park, and wandered over to Jubilee Park to use the bathroom, and then headed up to the Metro Might Rail station to head back to Central Station.

Below: Jubilee Park sportsground, seen from the Jubilee Park Metro Light Rail stop. The light rail is Sydney’s version of trams, for any non-locals reading this.
 

 
Mostly, though it’s been twelve and a half months since I had last run along that gorgeous foreshore, very little had changed and it was like I’d never left. It was as beautiful and inspiring and friendly as it ever was. Probably, the only real difference is how I feel about it -every turn and corner and view now comes imbued with a sense of nostalgia for the many runs I have enjoyed along that stretch. I hope to be adding to that number very soon.

And with that, it’s time for me to head out on tonight’s run/walk. Today will be my second session of 30 second runs with 2 minute walk breaks. (30 seconds has never felt so short!) Can’t wait for those runs to build up, but better safe than sorry. I do not want another ten weeks off running!