Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Whyalla park/street O. Tried to run this hard but didn't really have the energy to do so, perhaps not totally surprising after yesterday (although coming up the day after a long race is one of the things one has to be able to do in our game), and perhaps also a poor night's sleep trying to think of plans B, C, D and E for getting back to Melbourne. Some good views from the hills and a bit of route choice, which is about as good as you can ask for from this sort of event. A couple of punches had disappeared - clearly Whyalla has some national-class vandals. (Using punches at all was slightly retro, although not as retro as punching on the map as we did on Saturday - something which really breaks up one's control flow).

It was rather chilly on the Whyalla foreshore, a nice illustration of the local impacts of coastal exposure (there was a SE wind blowing and Whyalla's max was 13; at Port Augusta, where a SE wind is overland, it was 17). I wouldn't have thought Spencer Gulf had cooled enough yet to have that sort of impact but obviously it does.

Sprint on the Whyalla foreshore. Much the same physically as the first event. I suspect this might be the first time I've gone down into single digits in a proper event - I don't think I ever had anything that short in my M10/M12 days. (Indeed, sometimes the M12 courses were quite formidable by current standards - day 1 of Easter 1982, my first Easter, was 4.3k and had controls on it which I would consider to be bingo controls if I got them on an M21 course now). Simon, unsurprisingly, went a fair bit further into single digits.