{"id":368,"date":"2007-09-12T22:22:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T05:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2007-09-12T23:10:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T06:10:38","slug":"oz-report-part-13-melbourne-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Oz Report &#8211; Part 13 &#8211; Melbourne Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This was Father&#8217;s Day in Australia, and Mrs Elbeno had arranged for us 3 to run the Father&#8217;s Day 5 in Albert Park. So we got up early and borrowed a portable satnav device from the Boards, which directed us to the correct place without a problem. We got there at 8 for a 9 am race start, so we were able to get a decent parking place, pin on our race numbers, etc, without any rush. Although I had been entered as a runner, I was taking the small chap around the course in his stroller.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Elbeno zoomed off with the real runners, leaving me threading my way through the huffer-puffers at the back. Before the race I had decided on a target time of 45 minutes, so when I passed the one km mark at 13 minutes by my watch, I thought I had better get my skates on, and started running with the stroller instead of walking. It helped that the boy had fallen asleep, and the stroller&#8217;s front wheels were locked for more speed potential. I passed lots of people which prompted one woman to chivvy along her husband because &#8220;the baby&#8217;s passing you!&#8221; Picking up water at around 2.5 km, I settled into my run-walk pattern and came home in an official gun time of 41.37, quite respectable for a stroller-pusher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1363626202\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1333\/1363626202_fa8c548c2e.jpg\" alt=\"Daddy and Henry after the 5K\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That afternoon we headed with the Boards down to Elwood, on the northwest side of the bay that Melbourne sits atop, to enjoy the weather, barbecue some &#8220;snaggers&#8221; (sausages) and generally laze about, it being Father&#8217;s Day. Mr Board showed he&#8217;s going native:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1363628422\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1276\/1363628422_777380a366.jpg\" alt=\"Ben cooks the snaggers\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the chaps had a good time playing on the playground equipment and kicking balls around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1362740089\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1288\/1362740089_6842642dc2.jpg\" alt=\"Henry plays Aussie Rules Football\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I climbed a nearby rise to get a shot of far-off Melbourne, before we packed up our things and headed down the road for an ice cream.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/88319047@N00\/1363628936\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1299\/1363628936_7e1c3432d1.jpg\" alt=\"Melbourne across the bay\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, mini-Elbeno was being difficult, and Mrs Elbeno was getting a headache (or something) and we left the Boards to their ice cream, heading home ourselves. That evening, I think we ordered Indian for dinner and started a game of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzz%21\">Buzz!<\/a>, which unfortunately had to be prematurely aborted owing to the needs of the small one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday. This was Father&#8217;s Day in Australia, and Mrs Elbeno had arranged for us 3 to run the Father&#8217;s Day 5 in Albert Park. So we got up early and borrowed a portable satnav device from the Boards, which directed us to the correct place without a problem. We got&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}