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Thursday Jun 29, 2017 #
7 PM
running 41:40 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
Around Hawthorndene with Zara (+ Callum of course) discussing logistics for the weekend's rogaine. It was really foggy down by the bottom corner of the forest!
Wednesday Jun 28, 2017 #
6 PM
running 35:30 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
Drove to Sheps after work and did an abbreviated 3-Hills loop (it did contain all 3 hills). It's so quiet in the park after dark, with only the sound of the falling rain - and the heavy breathing of a clod-hopper!
Tuesday Jun 27, 2017 #
5 PM
running 56:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
Trotted over to Mortlock Park after work and ran 5 laps alternating fast & slow sides, by which time it was too dark to see where I was putting my feet but at least twilight lasted longer than a week or two ago. By the end of extended warmdown, my brain actually wasn't hurting.
Monday Jun 26, 2017 #
5 PM
Note
Have been just so stiff & tight & headachy through back & neck & shoulders lately (new mattress too soft?) that even AOTKM didn't achieve much loosening, but then I came home and consumed an entire packet of potato crisps for dinner and although I could feel my cholesterol levels rising as I did so, the repetitive action of hand-to-packet-->chip-to-mouth, was quite soothing and I managed not to think too much about tomorrow's SALHN clinical reconfiguration meeting.
Sunday Jun 25, 2017 #
10 AM
orienteering race (South Para) 1:21:57 [3] 6.0 km (13:40 / km) +230m 11:28 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon bluegreen
I wasn't sure, from Ruhi's description of the courses having been set as middle-distance style because of fire regrowth & felling, whether this meant that they would be shorter to avoid the crap or because it's all really crappy...Leg of Mutton was always the nicest section of the South Para map, being closest to the reservoir and with more open forest with actual rocks, so I remembered it quite fondly from about 15 years ago.
Today only about 15% of it was as nice as I remembered, but the rest was still fun in an "I like low-vis green navigation because it brings everyone else back to my level" kind of way and I didn't mind fighting through the young wattles because they're still much less painful than yakka. And once I got into Irena's mapping style, wasn't too far off on most of the rock features, plus I kept seeing John & AK and this kept me running harder than I otherwise would have. Very glad though that the last thing I did before starting was to eat a banana - and afterwards I required TWO sausages from the junior squad BBQ.
edit: I've just dug out my map from the 2000 SA champs on South Para where the 10.8km course took me 149 min, and as I recall, when I finished and the course planner bounced up to me cheerfully asking how I'd liked it, I may have sworn at him...
Today only about 15% of it was as nice as I remembered, but the rest was still fun in an "I like low-vis green navigation because it brings everyone else back to my level" kind of way and I didn't mind fighting through the young wattles because they're still much less painful than yakka. And once I got into Irena's mapping style, wasn't too far off on most of the rock features, plus I kept seeing John & AK and this kept me running harder than I otherwise would have. Very glad though that the last thing I did before starting was to eat a banana - and afterwards I required TWO sausages from the junior squad BBQ.
edit: I've just dug out my map from the 2000 SA champs on South Para where the 10.8km course took me 149 min, and as I recall, when I finished and the course planner bounced up to me cheerfully asking how I'd liked it, I may have sworn at him...
Saturday Jun 24, 2017 #
11 AM
running long 1:36:00 [3] 15.1 km (6:21 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
Finally feeling a bit more lively (really, 3 colds in as many months?) although still fairly tired - and slightly worried about managing a longer run with Zara, but it turned out ok in the winter sunshine and I think I even saw some golden wattle blossoms. Up through Echo Tunnel to the top of the park then out along the trainline to Station Rd and back via the southern park boundary.
Wednesday Jun 21, 2017 #
6 AM
running 1:01:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
Not sure what possessed me to get up early & go for a run on the shortest day of the year, but actually it wasn't quite as cold & dark as I'd expected. Unfortunately, by unusually not hurting when I woke up, my legs lulled me into a false sense of security about how far they could actually go and so this turned into a struggleplod although I did follow Brownhill Creek downstream from Mitcham to Millswood before heading home.
Tuesday Jun 20, 2017 #
6 PM
running tempo 30:00 [3] 5.6 km (5:21 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
John & I thought we'd better go to Nth Adl to supervise the kiddies in the absence of B&S but no-one else turned up so we just ran down to the weir & back at what was probably a casual pace for him but a bit harder for me. At least my legs felt better than yesterday, but I wasn't sorry for a short one due to OSA meeting.
Monday Jun 19, 2017 #
5 PM
running 1:14:30 [3] 11.4 km (6:32 / km) +270m 5:51 / km
shoes: Asics 2000-4
We got home about 10pm last night (all the in-law stuff went ok) and I was fairly tired today so indulged in (extra) coffee & chocolate this afternoon, then thought I'd better go for a run - up Randell's to the BP at Belair, back down Gloucester. 37 min each way, which is pretty shameful, but it was dark (would have been lovely an hour earlier), rough underfoot in places and my calves were ridiculously tight despite regular stretching stops. I guess it's all rogaine training anyway...
Sunday Jun 18, 2017 #
8 AM
running 1:20:00 [3]
shoes: Asics 2000-4
'Twas a beautifully sunny morning on the plains and not too cold up at Glenbrook, but running down to the Causeway from the gates of the National Park meant descending into the Mist o' the Mountains. Did the Campfire Creek - Red Hands Cave loop section in reverse (the opposite way around to usual, not literally jogging backwards) because I thought it might be slippery coming down the many little steps, so instead I then had to come down the few big ones which are hard for me to run up anyway - not sure if this way around was any more efficient because I still spent a lot of time watching my feet. Also, this run is nicest in summer when the wildflowers are out. When I got back to the Causeway a bunch of women in Serious Ultra Running Gear were standing around, and I didn't want any of them to catch me on the 1km uphill climb (still smarting from having continually been overtaken yesterday by a guy who was power walking, and in long-sleeved shirt & hiking pants) so I tried a bit harder on the ascent.
G & I brunched at one of the many cafes which have sprung up in Glenbrook, noting that the hiking/outdoor shop which morphed into a MTBing place a few years ago now has a new incarnation as a Serious Ultra Running Gear store, which I suspect caters to a female target audience given the number of women I saw on foot in the national park today - and yet I didn't see any cyclists, unlike a couple of years ago.
G & I brunched at one of the many cafes which have sprung up in Glenbrook, noting that the hiking/outdoor shop which morphed into a MTBing place a few years ago now has a new incarnation as a Serious Ultra Running Gear store, which I suspect caters to a female target audience given the number of women I saw on foot in the national park today - and yet I didn't see any cyclists, unlike a couple of years ago.
Saturday Jun 17, 2017 #
10 AM
orienteering (Lane Cove NP) 40:00 [3] 5.0 km (8:00 / km)
shoes: Asics 2000-4
G & I flew out of Adelaide @6am and I'd figured that the low-key event in Lane Cove NP was sort of on our way out to Penrith, so we headed directly to orienteering, which ended up costing me $25 if you include $7 for the Eastern Distributor toll and $8 for parking in the national park, and was on a map which I considered substandard; although I accept that it wasn't possible to make brilliant courses with a river running through the middle with only one crossing point, I would have liked the rocks and tracks to be drawn a bit better (and distinguishable from each other) and not to have lost about 5 min as a result...finished feeling decidedly grumpy (plus muddy and bloody) which was partly rectified by second breakfast & coffee at the shops in North Ryde.
Thursday Jun 15, 2017 #
7 PM
running (Belair night) 33:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 21
Just a short one 'cos I'm tired today (and also my back has been tight ever since we got the new mattress which is a touch too soft for me). Think my night peripheral vision must be going; twice I saw a large brown 'snake' by the side of the path - which when it moved, turned out to be attached to the body of a kangaroo!
Wednesday Jun 14, 2017 #
6 PM
orienteering (Wadmore Park night O) 31:36 [3] 3.0 km (10:32 / km)
shoes: Asics Kayano 21
A small but select group turned up tonight for the training which John had set for B&S' last before they flee the country. The roughness of the washed-out tracks justified taping my ankles but I was still pretty slow because by torchlight it was hard to distinguish between purple lines, contour lines and tiny tracks on the map. Good fun though!
Tuesday Jun 13, 2017 #
5 PM
running 51:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
After a meeting at FMC: up through the Uni & Bellevue Heights then down through Eden Hills & Sheps. Guess I'll get used to this sort of route in future, just as I did when I lived on Sturt Rd 20 years ago. Was a bit startled to realise this afternoon that while Repat hospital may be closing in December, many units/wards will be moving offsite as early as October - which is only 4 months away...guess I'd better make a start on decluttering my office (and saving 15 years' worth of orienteering documents from my computer to an external hard drive).
Monday Jun 12, 2017 #
10 AM
orienteering race (Charles Sturt Uni sprint) 24:48 [4] 2.6 km (9:32 / km) +60m 8:33 / km
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
We started up above the uni on a hill covered with rocks and native pines and I got through the hilltop controls pretty cleanly then was very slow on the steep descent down the hillside into the uni (made slower by the fact that at my moment of hesitation trying to work out if the marked fence crossing point was actually a gate, I had a moment of bodily contact with Bruce whose trajectory was at right angles to mine - oops!).
I'd expected my legs to be tired after yesterday but in fact they weren't too bad although obviously I've lost fitness since NZ, so I was able to run hard through the uni section and didn't mind that the course was a bit too long. Only mistakes were in not correctly reading the trap controls on the bridge and on the broad stairs.
On the way back to Melbourne we drove past The Rock, scene of the first Aust Schools' Champs I ever attended - in 1987 - and later stopped to walk to the top of the granite boulders at Mad Dan Morgan's Lookout. He sounds like a really nasty piece of work even as 1800s bushrangers go, but the smallish patch of granite outcrops could make a nice little microsprint: http://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/country-nsw/t...
I'd expected my legs to be tired after yesterday but in fact they weren't too bad although obviously I've lost fitness since NZ, so I was able to run hard through the uni section and didn't mind that the course was a bit too long. Only mistakes were in not correctly reading the trap controls on the bridge and on the broad stairs.
On the way back to Melbourne we drove past The Rock, scene of the first Aust Schools' Champs I ever attended - in 1987 - and later stopped to walk to the top of the granite boulders at Mad Dan Morgan's Lookout. He sounds like a really nasty piece of work even as 1800s bushrangers go, but the smallish patch of granite outcrops could make a nice little microsprint: http://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/country-nsw/t...
Sunday Jun 11, 2017 #
10 AM
orienteering race (Burngoogee long) 1:37:43 [4] 9.0 km (10:51 / km) +315m 9:14 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon bluegreen
I had been a bit worried about how a longer race would go with not having run anything much over an hour lately, but at least this was not going to be particularly tough terrain (not when compared to St Helens granite), and in fact it turned out to be quite pleasant with really only 2 big hills. Also 2 really long legs, on the first of which I was proud of myself for seeing the wide left track option, but then I ballsed up the control circle just after Bridget hooned past me. Bun passed me on the track on the other long leg, having put her foot down on the accelerator...! Although I would have been happy with more legs in the vague flat stuff the last loop up & down the hill wasn't too bad either, and it was an absolutely glorious day to be out in the winter sunshine.
Saturday Jun 10, 2017 #
Event: 2017 Australian 3 Days
2 PM
orienteering race (Connorton middle) 1:06:06 [4] 5.7 km (11:36 / km) +200m 9:52 / km
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon bluegreen
This was a nice area of granite hills with some patches of native pine, not far from the outskirts of Wagga, but I didn't do justice to Briohny's course setting - partly because of being very stiff after the 5-hour drive from Melbourne and also due to being a bit distracted by thoughts of the OA meetings to come. Plus I struggled to bring the map into focus, often wishing that I could just push aside the black dots in order to read the contours underneath. Veered too far left on the long leg to 2 and Lucy had caught me already, then we were not far apart through the next few rocky short legs, then I came unstuck on the danger downhill leg to 11 where I came around the hillside to the narrow spur, passing a flat rock-slab area at the end of the leg and thinking I was on line to the control but then not finding it and thinking I was too far downhill already and going back up until I could find something I identified, instead of just checking out that rock a little further downhill which other people were running to...think I was getting the vague-and-hungries because I hadn't had lunch yet. So that was about 5 min lost there (and Anna F came through me here) plus I was a bit scrappy on a few controls towards the end, and a bit grumpy with my result because a clean run would have been at least 8 min faster.
Thursday Jun 8, 2017 #
7 PM
running (Belair night) 54:30 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
Wasn't really enthused about the concept of running but thought I'd better go along to be sociable. Up the southern park boundary, back along Long Gully with B&S, Zara/Callum, Angus, Lauren.
Wednesday Jun 7, 2017 #
6 PM
Note
Got dark very quickly when I was putting out tapes/reflectors at Shepherd's Hill for Robin's training, so it's a good thing I had my headlamp...once everyone had headed off to do the sprintervals I trotted around after them to collect the tags, playing "spot the ringtail possum". Don't mind being by myself in Shep's at night, but I prefer Belair. Also I am wondering whether the way my feet land when running after dark is contributing to hamstring tightness.
Tuesday Jun 6, 2017 #
6 PM
running (North Adelaide) 44:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
Nth Adl loop, with some doublings-back for various people. I had psyched myself up for intervals but tired legs & tight hamstring weren't too sorry when these didn't manifest. Maybe it's time for new shoes already?
Monday Jun 5, 2017 #
6 PM
running 1:11:00 [3]
shoes: Asics GT-2000
Up Springbank to the bottom of Randell's, across to Brownhill Creek behind the caravan park, and back again. Felt like hard work and not just because it was dark & wet & slippery. Seemed to spend a long time waiting to cross major roads and consequently was late for WA meeting.
Sunday Jun 4, 2017 #
3 PM
riding (Brownhill Creek) 1:06:00 [3] 19.0 km (3:28 / km)
After making the most of the sunshine by doing about 6 hours of house-and-garden-work. But at least I got the kitchen floor washed and dried.
Saturday Jun 3, 2017 #
3 PM
orienteering (Belair fight) 1:05:00 [2]
shoes: Inov8 X-Talon bluegreen
Did B&S' "green" training course and this took me a while, especially since the vegetation's changed a bit and as I became less certain of some of the control sites e.g. defunct termite mounds, I became less certain of exactly where I was headed next...nice afternoon for it although the sun seemed low in the sky already and I startled lots of grazing roos.
Friday Jun 2, 2017 #
5 PM
running 52:30 [3]
shoes: Asics GT-2000
The sun had set already when I left work but twilight lasted until the top of Hillrise where I admired the city lights then headed on up Mead St and to the top of the Lynton Connector bike path then down it - knees didn't appreciate the 20% decline.
Thursday Jun 1, 2017 #
7 PM
running (Belair night) 1:10:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 22
It was a bit chilly tonight and I'd accidentally worn old tights with negligible elasticity so had to keep hitching them up with both hands (about every 10 sec) so I didn't freeze my backside. The actual group run was better than expected - and we managed to avoid the oncoming freight train - although I am a bit out of practice on hills which doesn't bode well for Wagga.