Training Log Archive: jennycas

Short suburban jog with lots of stretching before tomorrow's S2S

I don't really like sharing the recreation lane with water buffaloes. Sort of had a head-on collision with one of them, which was probably my fault.

Officially a recovery run, but his was really just a caching expedition in disguise - ran the flat length of Belair to the redwoods and then found 4 caches on the way back. Or you could say I am taking it easy in the hope of doing the whole Sea to Summit on Sunday. Nothing hurt today, so I may just survive :)

Just a normal run, really, but made sweeter because it was an exercise in procrastination/rebellion against having to work today. (And I detoured to find a cache :) It always surprises me how quiet and peaceful it is in Shepherd's Hill and the commuter traffic noise hardly filters in; or if it does, it's drowned out by the noise of the birds in the trees along the creek. Corellas, galahs and rosellas were all having a great time because they don't have to work today....

I got George to drop me off at Pennington Bay in the evening, (after a day trip with the kids & their parents to Stokes Bay) and I ran back to American River, plus 10 min for a side-trip up Prospect Hill, which Matthew Flinders climbed in 1802 - I didn't run up the 512 steps, firstly because they are too rickety to run up, and secondly because I think there actually are less than 512. It was lovely running alongside the lagoon at sunset, with pelicans and black swans and Tammar wallabies all over the place.

From American River straight up the hill out of town then across to Redbanks/Red Cliffs on the north side of the peninsula. Nice little farm track down to the beach, then I had to come back up & over again. A bit of a plod but nice to be on my own without a 3-and-5-year-old following my every move.

George and I then escaped from the others for the rest of the day and drove to Cape Borda, Harvey's Return, Cape Du Couedic, Admiral's Arch, Remarkable Rocks. It's possible that I may have taken over 200 photos today!