Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Victorian Autumn Series at Petticoat Gully. The good news is that I actually made it around a bush course today (at the third time of asking in 2019), with no significant injury issues, and had a reasonably clean run on a technical goldmining course - only minor time losses at 2 and 19. The bad news, which shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise given my lack of training - this was the longest run I've done in time since last year's nationals - is that I didn't really last the distance and walked significant parts of the last 20 minutes (and suffered somewhat in the process of "running" the slightly uphill finish chute). Still, lack of fitness is something which can be worked on.

Thought the winning time might be in the mid- to upper 40s but Patrick did 42; getting close to 6s in a sometimes rough area is an impressive effort.

Sprint at La Trobe Uni. This was a pretty low key event (and a late addition to the calendar) but got an excellent turnout, and was well worth it - excellent course setting with decisions to be made on almost every leg, and a few legs with micro route choice as well. Got the key decisions right - just one minor hesitation at 12 - and avoided falling into any of the traps. Also felt better running than I have for a couple of weeks, and even felt like I was lifting the pace a bit towards the end. (Got inside the 50% mark this time, although I don't think Nathan and Joe, who were unofficial, were going flat out.

Shortish Yarra Boulevard ride as soon as it got light - pretty slow early on (pretty slow paths to get there via the pipe bridge; trying to negotiate the Chandler bridge in its current state on a bike is no-one's idea of fun), but got into it after a while. This is a good place for feeling inadequate (although there's not quite as much bike bling on display as there is on Beach Road). No tacks to be seen - the person who was spreading them seems to have gone quiet since the police released an image of a "person of interest", although no arrests have been made as far as I know.

Going alternate days at the moment (and not very much) but still felt pretty borderline, for the back at least (foot was OK apart from immediately after one sharp downhill). Dropped down onto the Darebin Creek park with thoughts of doing the circuit over the new bridge, but decided that that was a bit ambitious the way things were feeling (it's a sad day when a slow 40 minutes falls into the category of "too ambitious"). Nice morning to be out, at least (earliest sub-10 in autumn in Melbourne since 2005).

C • Angriest Summer 7

Following advice last night I'm being fairly cautious about going too deeply back into running for the time being, so abandoned the idea of going to Scotch tonight (a pity as it's usually an interesting area, and an ideal night for running) and took to the pool instead. Definitely felt like the first day of autumn with a cool southwest wind (cool enough to provide a bit of resistance in the water). Fairly mundane as a session.

One of the things that cricket fans do every now and again is come up with "theme" XIs (say, one of each letter of the alphabet). Someone came up with a good one today - a line-up of Gooch, Sehwag, Vaughan, Ponting, Martin Crowe, Kallis, Ganguly, Greg Matthews, Warne, Gough and Doug "The Rug" Bollinger. The common thread - all of them have done ads for hair transplants. Quite a decent team, if a bit short on pace and lacking a specialist wicketkeeper.

C • Callum 2

A run, of sorts. The good news is that my foot, after a bit of initial soreness, was OK after the first couple of minutes, and apart from one short-lived rough patch the back was also OK. That was about the best that could be said for a sleepy and sluggish run (I think I've got a bit of a cold at the moment), although the last few minutes wasn't too bad, and the foot didn't come up sore afterwards.

Had my regular session with the physio tonight and she isn't especially happy with how tight things generally are on the right side (and as I am, she's concerned that an injury has recurred twice in a month even though it seems to be settled for now), so I'll be reasonably cautious with things for a bit.

Morning pilates session. A bit rushed getting there because my alarm didn't work (or to be more precise, the radio shifted slightly in frequency and the static wasn't enough to wake me up). Feels earlier in the morning when it's dark, too.

Seemed to go OK, and the quads don't even scream quite as much in the lunge set, either.

Still felt a bit sleepy when I started this. A bit up and down once in the water, but not doing too badly once I was properly under way in the second half.