We've got a bleeder!

I think I have the world's weakest nipples for running. Take this morning for example - it was a beautiful morning (i.e. no rain) and I ran hard for an hour. Walking into the apartment building after my run I was feeling quite good about myself, until I looked down and saw this:

Pathetic!!! Short of buying a whole lot of new singlets (as opposed to the half price Aussiebum ones Annabel got for me), or running shirtless, I'm not quite sure what to do. Putting Pawpaw ointment on beforehand seems to help, but it's easy to forget at 5:45am!

This morning's run was pretty good. I aimed to do an hour tempo run - building into it for 30mins, then turning around and trying to get back home under 60mins. I ended up getting back in 58:57, so a full minute under. Not a bad negative split, although given that I built into it from the start, I would've been disappointed if I'd gone any slower for the second half.

I actually ran further along the river this morning than I ever have before. Total of 14.66km according to the GPS (MapMyRun says more like 15km so not too far off). That is an average of 4:01min/km (by the GPS distance) or 3:56min/km (by MapMyRun). Neither is a blistering pace, but my legs were still feeling a bit sluggish from the sand running on the weekend. Hopefully Friday will be better!

On another note, right at the point where I turned there were about 6 guys with surfskis who had obviously just finished a session. Surfski is apparently alive and kicking in Brisvegas, despite the lack of surf! The guys were all on Think skis, and at least one looked like a pretty beginner model, so I don't know if these guys will be tackling the 20 Beaches anytime soon, but good on them for getting out there.