Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Last of the Melbourne sprints, at Carlton Gardens. My main objective today was to see whether I could get through four days in a row (something I haven't done for a long time but will need to do at Easter). Loosened myself up enough in the warm-up to think I could make a go of that, and did, but the pace was pretty ordinary. At that speed I couldn't really afford to do things like run from 11 most of the way to 13 (through not concentrating at the junction rather than misreading the leg per se). Some decent route choices to make use of a small area with some interesting angled laneways (a pity we couldn't go into the buildings north of Elgin Street as we did in training last year, but crossing Elgin Street isn't practical in an organised event).

Today's entry in the list of juniors blowing me away in the finish chute: Maya Bennette (W14, I think). W14s have been blowing me away in finish chutes since at least 2008 so I'm not too specifically concerned about this.

First sighting at an event for a while: Adrian Jackson, taking his son (who I'd guess would be about 6) around.