Training Log Archive: jennycas

Before sitting on my bottom all day in a conference. It was 6 degrees at the pool!

I was already soaked by the time I'd walked home from work, plus I needed to work up an appetite for chinese banquet with my doctors (who I work with). It was seriously pouring when I set out, the gutters and roads were awash and all the deepest puddles seemed to be in the darkest spots. Lots of fun (and the hamstring wasn't too bad).

Unhappy hamstring/ITB. Seems to know that I want it to run a half marathon on Sunday. (George has to drive to Innamincka this weekend so can't drop me off at Athelstone Sunday morning - I may have to come up with a plan B.) Also I am sooo tired; lack of sleep on the boat trip may have caught up with me. Strengthening and stretching 30 min.

This was meant to be a recovery run but I was in a hurry before it got dark. There are still pools in the creek after the weekend rains and I felt bad stepping on the tiny new shoots of green grass. Hamstring not happy and causing sciatica. Might give it a rest for a couple of days.

C • Your muscle problems 2

C • Rain? 2

Have missed the pond. It was pretty this morning with steam rising.

Warmup included runthroughs. Warmdown was the rest of the circuit after I gave up on 400s. Have included the 200m jog in between intervals when I collapsed in a heap. I don't know, it's too hard to work this out without a digital watch.

400s are not my thing. I can do 200m without even working up a sweat but I died in the second half of each very badly. I am in awe of people who can do 20x400 before breakfast. Maybe I have no fast twitch muscle fibres?

Not sure of time because I still don't have a watch which takes splits (hint: birthday coming up) but the fastest may have been 92 and the slowest 105ish. Gave up after 6, probably a good thing because hamstring was twinging.

C • There is a trick 1

With John and Simon around Mitcham in the dark. They had to wait for me at the top of each hill but otherwise I didn't straggle too badly.

Simon "I'm acclimatising for Taiwan" was wearing:
gloves
beanie
leggings and overpants
Skins top, Arrows top and jacket

John was wearing singlet and shorts.
At least one of these guys must be not quite rational :)

Such an awful night on the Spirit of Tasmania!

Our cabin was near the front of the boat and above the car carrier deck, so as soon as it got rough I was lying awake listening to the clunks and bangs and wondering if any of the cars would fall off the suspended platform and on to ours. George slept okay initially but once he got sick he got really sick! I eventually convinced him to come up to the deserted lounge on the top deck,where the air was fresher, the ghost chairs sway, and the rain was pouring in through the ceiling. It was freezing cold up there and we both eventually ended up sleeping illegally (if you can call it sleep) on the lounges on Deck 7, and we weren't alone!

I honestly don't know why we paid all that money for a claustrophobic cabin, it would not have been worse in the sit-up-seats. Next time I don't know what I'll do. George says there won't be a next time. Poor bastard, he was still pretty green driving back from Melbourne, and when we got out to stretch after a couple of hours' driving we were both still walking like we were on the boat!

C • The boat trip 2