Negative Split

Today is the day. 80,000 or so people, I swear I haven't seen such dense crowds in Australia for a long time o.O

Right now I'm kind of tired and common is tomorrow (good luck!), so here are a few lessons to be learned from this year:

• always use to toilet sometime before you get to Hyde Park. The lines there are massive (15 people long for each cubicle)
• do not eat warm food for breakfast, it screws up your stomach in the cold so bad; cereal is better, or you could just drink juice
• escape the peloton as quickly as possible at the start, they slow you down crazily
• depending on speed, only go to two drink stops (one after Heartbreak Hill)
• tank Heartbreak Hill: it's not actually that hard as it is speed sucking
• be there early (obviously)
• do not trust Hillsbus for anything, they have ridiculously irrational douches there
• from a Blues Brother's perspective: if you see red or green, you're doing it right. If you see yellow or orange, hurry up.
• Umm... don't drink too much? Pretty sure isotonic drinks are partial diuretics
• don't do a K-Wang and eat McDonalds before the race. 
• EDIT: don't do a K-Wang and run into a portaloo door.

Self timed, I have 80 minutes Q.Q That's about 6 minutes short of the mark for SH1, at least we get a free 'bag' and 'paper', right?

My ankle hurts badly, I can't run or even walk easily, AFL marking is probably tomorrow.

Goodnight. (NTS: add more / make continuation post)