Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

The last beach intervals session of this trip, at Plantation Point at Vincentia on the Jervis Bay shore. Once again 10x1 minute. Felt pretty sharp this morning, although hints of a stitch at times (perhaps leaving a bit close to breakfast). The tide was coming in and I thought the rock shelf I was using as a marker might disappear beneath the waves, but it held out long enough.

I was in the NSW bit of Jervis Bay, but made a visit later on to the Territory bit (to be pedantic, it is now a separate federal territory, having split off from the ACT when the ACT got self-government in 1989). It's a legal anomaly which was responsible for one of the more interesting bits of legal argument I've heard of. The case was a defamation case over comments made on a Wollongong radio station and was being brought in the ACT (presumably because the law was more favourable there). The defence had gone to great effort to amass technical evidence that the allegedly offending broadcast could not have been received in Canberra and therefore no libel had been committed there, but were floored by the question "haven't you ever heard of Jervis Bay?". I'm not sure what the final result was; it was a long time ago.

Warm up/down. Took a while to loosen up, it being early in the morning. Felt a few spots of rain as I started but that quickly stopped. At that stage I hadn't experienced measurable rain since Shark Bay in mid-June, but that state of affairs was to alter on the way up to Canberra, and more so in Canberra itself which was on the end of a fairly impressive thunderstorm.

I came to Canberra via Nerriga. This was a slow route today because of extensive roadworks (the road doesn't get a lot of traffic so they don't have any qualms about holding you up for 20 minutes while they do something), but once they finish sealing it next year it will become a major route from Canberra to the coast - it's considerably less mountainous than the Clyde. If someone felt so inclined there would, I think, be a good business opportunity in opening up a roadhouse and/or cafe in the currently minuscule settlement of Nerriga - a good chance to get in cheaply before the traffic arrives. (Were it not already well and truly in Sydney's weekender orbit there might also be good real estate investment opportunities in the Jervis Bay area before people realise it's only 2 hours away from Canberra instead of 3). I hope, though, that someone in the responsible council(s) has a plan to do something about the rickety one-lane bridge across the Shoalhaven at Oallen, because I don't think it will cope too well with the (insert large number here)-fold increase in traffic that it's going to get soon.

In Canberra now for the next couple of nights.