Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

One step forward, several steps back. Felt rather iffy when I got up this morning but decided to go out to Yellow Gum anyway. As it happened, hip tightness flared early but, given how I felt after 23 minutes out, I suspect I wouldn't have gone close to lasting the distance regardless. Just in case I thought I might have been soft, I then hit the wall in a big way and spent most of the rest of the day on the couch (and didn't even feel like eating anything). Hopefully a night's sleep will help; it feels a bit like the issue I had this time three years ago (in which case I'll hopefully be OK by next weekend).

Coming back, I was listening to an ABC segment where people were remembering their favourite milk bars. Someone said they lived next to an ice factory when they were growing up, something which had a different meaning in the 1950s/1960s to what it does in 2019.

The sort of run which would have been routine once but has become rather less so; this was my longest for a few weeks. Got going reasonably well and steady most of the way, and felt confident enough to take on the straight-up-the-clay track out of Darebin Creek (the slippery surface potentially good practice for similar things at orienteering tomorrow). Tired a bit in the last 15 minutes, which is a bit of a concern given that this time next week I'll still have another 14 hours to go; hopefully it's just getting over a cold.

Would have been a more interesting run had it been a bit further south or east, but all the hail showers missed us; we barely got a drop after sunrise.

Made it out today, although still slow and rather weak (no injury issues though - woke up with a bit of a sore neck but that didn't cause me any trouble when running). A bit earlier than of late but not in full darkness - I sort of miss (and sort of don't) starting longer runs in the dark at this time of year.

It's the last night of following JWOC, but Sunday night provides a dilemma for sporting night-owls - you can choose between the World Cup final, the Wimbledon men's final, the Tour or the British GP. Part of my IOF role is to keep an eye out for major international sporting events which might clash with potential WOC dates; I don't always succeed, but at least we usually manage to stay out of the way of the Olympics these days.

C • Plus.. 1

Still a bit weak, although I think I could have gone out today if I'd had to. Probably shouldn't have stayed up so late last night watching the end of New Zealand-India (staying up too late watching sport is a bit of an occupational hazard for Australians at this time of year, although New Zealanders have it worse).

We got asked a question by the media earlier this week about the alleged "Gladstone dome" (a non-existent feature which supposedly keeps rain away from Gladstone, in the fine tradition of people noticing rain that misses them and hits someone else but not the reverse). I suspected that googling this might turn up a basketball stadium but instead it turned up an establishment called the Pleasure Dome in Gladstone Street, South Melbourne (not to be confused with Gladstone Street, Fyshwick) which I suspect from its description - clicking on the link from a work computer wouldn't be a good move - is a house of ill repute. (It also turned up a news story about a feature in a local playground).

C • Finals 2

The cold that's been lingering the last few days took a turn for the worse overnight, and I thought it better to sit the morning out. Starting to feel improved later on in the day so hopefully will be up to doing something tomorrow.

Even by my usual standards, this was slow. I could try blaming a late night watching JWOC, but think it was just one of those days.

Early morning run before coming back up to Melbourne, a bit of a rarity for me on a Monday this year (although not exactly coming off the sort of weekend I was doing back in the day) - headed towards the front beach, which took me to the far end of what I wanted to do. Felt a bit sluggish - again didn't sleep much last night, but the cold doesn't seem to have developed - but again no real injury issues, so I'm happy with that.

Evening session with a bit more drama than usual - nothing to do with what we were doing, but rather lots of flashing lights on the street outside. Didn't see what happened but am guessing it might have been someone getting hit on the tram (there's nothing on the news at the time of writing so hopefully nobody died).

Definitely looser than last time, which wouldn't be hard.

This was a day with a lot of ups (and a certain amount of indulgence), and some downs, one of them being that my car threw a wobbly (probably clutch) while in Dad's possession (he was going out to check street-O control sites while his own car was getting serviced).