Training Log Archive: slow-twitch

Ditched the orienteering today as the weather has made it easy to admit my body could use a quiet day or 2...

After a couple of hours freezing my butt off at the main Catchpool carpark playing security/information officer while our helicopter was working, out the main highway to the one part of the Cattle Ridge track I hadn't seen yet, up to the Browns track junction to replace some factually incorrect signage, down and up Browns to sweep non-toxic bait off the track because we have to assume people are stupid (if it's not frustrating enough to go down and up such a steep slippery track anyway, there were no baits visible), then carrying along Cattle Ridge with the intent of doing some trap maintenance only to discover I didn't have the right tools for the job. On the plus side it was a stunner of a day - hard to believe thursday's experience was just 2 days beforehand. My knees are definitely over the final descent down Butcher's for the moment, however.

C • Stunner Saturday 1

Completing the containment trap line , cattle ridge and down the former track to the river. Lovely cold gusty sleety day with a particularly nasty shower just as I was starting the return trip, probably playing hypothermia roulette by the time I was back at the car.

Again, out longer but much stop-start. Felt a bit less energetic today, think I was subconsciously resigned to cutting the day short when the forecast heavy rain was going to hit in the afternoon, which never happened. Still got further along the line than expected, so should get close enough to finishing on Thursday to be annoying!

Out all day, 4 hours feels an about equivalent. From Catchpool out to the river then Browns track and cattle ridge to Butchers, activating the perimeter of death. In theory should take 2 more days, we'll see.