9.4 miles steady

By the late afternoon I had recovered fairly well and had also more or less got used to the heat, so I attempted to run as far as the new velodrome on Pobediteley by the most direct route, all the way along Kommunisticheskaya and over the footbridge to Masherova, then straight out towards Zhdanovichi. It was broadly uphill but there were very few road junctions to get stopped at. I reached the entrance to the underpass in a reasonable time and ran back the way I had come. Got back in 1:09:36, distance came out at 9.37 miles for a 7:26 average.