Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Was hoping to do a pool running session but couldn't find Cassie's old flotation belt in the cellar, so swam instead. Felt reasonable so I was a bit surprised that it was so much slower than yesterday. One hazard of the timing (just after opening time at CISAC) was that for about 10 minutes the sunglare coming through onto one end of the pool was such that I couldn't see where the end was.

Ended the Conference right on time, which was as well because I had to leave immediately for a 4.15 flight to Sydney, for a (work) conference which starts at 6.30. I'll be in Sydney for most of the week, although I'm not particularly confident that I'll be doing much (if any) running whilst there. If I'm up to running by then I do plan to try to get to the Epping event on Wednesday evening.

C • Epping? http://www.chig.rou... 2

Swim at the AIS pool while everyone else was doing the post-OA Conference session orienteering event at Bruce Ridge. Headed for the 25-metre pool to feel less inadequate (bearing in mind that it takes me as long to swim one lap as it used to take Ian Thorpe to swim four). Knee is making very gradual progress but still feels like it's a bit of time away.

I remembered from past experience 20-odd years ago that this pool is very heavily dosed with chlorine, and that hasn't changed - definitely a place where you want good goggles.

Quite a lot of worthwhile discussion today although not so much in the way of concrete decisions. Most significantly, we will be doing a complete reworking of our high performance strategy - this was something we were looking at doing anyway but the ASC's announcement of a new strategic plan at their end for supporting high performance sport was an added impetus, as unless we have a good plan in place we'll struggle to hold onto much in the way of high performance funding.

And I've started to think about 'ambitious 2020 goals' for orienteering in Australia. Number 1: that by 2020, every junior age class at every state championships will have at least 10 participants.

C • 2020 goals? 3

Didn't get the chance to get to the water today (in between finishing things off for work before going to Canberra for the OA conference, and going to the announcement of the new ASC/AIS high performance structure). Did manage to get out of Melbourne before there was too much thunderstorm action.

The Qantas safety videos, which have featured Olympians for the last few months, now feature Australian cricketers. Absent are any tips on in-flight relaxation from David Boon or Rod Marsh.

C • You could buy one of these for the trip 3

A rather frustrating day in a lot of ways - suffice it to say that it's challenging to operate in an environment where someone is telling you to do A, someone else is telling you to do B and then after you've just done A and B someone else again comes in and says you can't do A or B. Got off to a reasonable start, though, in a pool which was a lot less busy at 7am than I suspect it was at 6pm. Knee isn't making a lot of progress.

On the way into work I swung past a Fitzroy house whose mid-1990s purchase has attracted some media attention in the last few weeks. Might be fertile ground for some classic real estate euphemism the next time it's on the market. (One fine example earlier this year was "a colourful part of Melbourne's history", for a house which played host to one of Melbourne's most infamous murders).

C • Easy Street? 2

It really is very slow when you're trying not to use your legs that much. Not showing many signs of improvement which is a bit of a worry - although in late 2010 it took a couple of weeks to make much progress so maybe it will be the same again.

My busiest media day for a while today (although not as busy as it would have been had I been in Geneva, as I have on the equivalent day in the last two years), and tomorrow will be as well.

C • Legs 1

In the somewhat sub-optimal environment at Ivanhoe again - this time because early-morning thunderstorms made it likely that Fitzroy would be closed (I'm guessing that lightning strikes are considered a health and safety risk). A fairly standard session. Knee much as yesterday, perhaps very slightly improved?

A swim, trying not to kick too much (which meant being even slower than usual). Nothing too exciting, although keeping track of time was slightly challenging for the unwary - firstly the clock in the changerooms at Fitzroy has gone from being a few minutes slow for most of the last few weeks to 20 minutes slow now, then the 60-second clock by the pooldeck (which I use to keep track of my lap times) was running backwards.

This followed watching the process of it being demonstrated to the Formula 1 community that radar isn't necessarily very reliable at detecting drizzle.

The knee felt a little better this morning, more so after the swim (and coped with the ride in from Fitzroy better than I thought it might), but still feels a bit awkward and unstable walking and I think it's still a bit of time away - not such a bad thing as I don't think we'll see much change out of 30 degrees on Thursday night unless it starts raining before 9am.