Training Log Archive: Bertbennett

Event: NSW State League #11 - Mittagong / #12 - Belanglo SF
 

Well the hammy and calf probably would have preferred if I didn't play netball but my mind craves the game. A win this week. Opposition down a WD, which made it a bit easier.

Muscles complaining. Will probably have no training for a few days while I let my calf and hammy rest until Sunday. I think I just keep coming back to training a day or two too soon and it never quite heals. Annoying. Pathetic training session really.

seeing a very fat man on a very small vespa struggling to go up a hill today with heaps of traffic behind him lifted my spirits.

Decided against my usual tuesday speed session with the flyers because I want to give my muscles a little bit of a break from high intensity stuff for a little while. But I wanted to make sure Nic had someone to introduce her to everyone as she was trying out the flyers session for the first time.

Introduced Nicola. Made the absolutely massive mistake of mentioning orienteering to someone who I thought I'd already gone through the labour intensive task of explaining it to. I had not explained it to this man. There went 5 minutes. Anyway, ended up doing 2 of the 6 800m intervals just cause, then went on with my long run. Down to bar beach, then merewether, up to the top of the hill then back down to the beach, then into Glenrock. Then down fernleigh track, through Adamstown, past the race course and home.

I encountered a black cat near Hamilton. Apparently the sight of me running down the footpath scared the shit out of it and it ran onto the road. I hear a crunch, and a loud meow of pain. Then I turn around and see the cat dragging itself off the road. A few minutes later and the cat was dead. The guy who hit the cat (driving an X5, soul patch, douchebag haircut) didn't want anything to do with the situation but I made him take responsibility. I left the scene, and jogged home. Sad for the cat and its loving owners.

Wow! so tired today! A couple days in a row with 5 hours sleep really destroyed me. Took a 3 hour nap in the afternoon instead of going for a run. Fair trade off I think.

Arrived in the morning and had to put water out at the two water controls. Very heavy. Many effort. Then collecting controls afterwards. Due to a lack of control collectors Alex and I had to put in a big effort. Hit all the controls perfectly ;) what a surprise.

I think I definitely overset some of my courses today. Quite a few people spending 90+ minutes out on course is probably evidence of that. Sorry to all the poor people I sent out on courses that were maybe a bit too hard!

2 people finished my superlong course. Another bloke punched the finish, wrote dnf on his block and walked away all without a word. Woops!

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