Very cold 18km long run

My oh my it was cold this morning, brought me straight back to my UK days! 9C someone mentioned, but with the wind off the water and without any sun the first 15mins of the run were a bit icy to say the least!

The plan for today was 1.40 to be done by leaving Southbank, heading down towards New Farm, a quick lap of New Farm park and then back over the Victoria Bridge to the Ship Inn. I made much better time than I thought I was going to though and actually ended up doing a solo lap of the Botanical Gardens to bring my time up, finishing on 1.37, I would have been happy to have done 90mins as I'm still feeling a bit of tightness at the top of my leg, still, 10 hours after I finished my run (lots of stretching was done afterwards) I am not feeling overly anxious about it. I am having Monday night off Touch (got the excuse of a work dinner) to give myself two days rest before the time trial, which if need be I will take fairly easy.

2 weeks and 1 day to go!