Training Log Archive: jennycas

Short run to stretch my legs after standing all day at Lexie and Michael's wedding and to see how badly a sports bra goes with a sunburnt neck :(
A bit faster towards the end. This was better for my brain than it was for my legs - mostly okay but knee twinged a bit.

Dropped my car off at Kingswood for a service and ran home before work. Halfway home I was joined by Koby the kelpie. Never seen him before, don't know where he lives, but kelpies like to RUN! He didn't so much follow me for the next km, as run on ahead, sniffing and weeing on things but still much faster than me. At Goodwood Rd I stopped and asked him his name, then tried to convince him to stay on that side of the road, but he just cheerfully ran across ahead of me, ignoring the lights.

I bet a lot of drivers now think that I have very poor control over 'my' kelpie. I was having visions of needing to shut him in my kitchen while I rang his owners, but then he stopped to talk to some other dogs and I kept going. I sincerely hope he got back across Goodwood road okay in peak hour traffic.

I am also sincerely glad that any kelpie in Meatloaf's breeding is diluted by an awful lot of corgi! (He's been officially classified by my vet friend as a corgoid-heeloid-kelpoid, but that doesn't explain the goatee.)

Decided I needed some terrain running
a) to pracise lifting my legs higher
b) because it would be softer underfoot and for my knees
Since I finished work early I taped my ankles and did 5 laps of the pines in Blackwood Forest before it got dark. Tried to jump over logs and weave between trees as much as possible. My knee only twinged twice, on the downhills. Then I went to Belair and stood John up like everyone else did.

Intervals up the hill on the 4WD track in the wind and the rain. Great evening for it. Recoveries down the slippery single track. Tried to put my shoulders back and elbows down and push from the hips. Squeezed in a 5th rep before it got too dark.

2.33
2.37
2.38
2.42
2.36

Warm up to Shepherds Hill 22 min, 4 recoveries back down the hill 8 min, warm down to home 24 min. Found a cache on the way home :)

I seem to have an unhappy knee. Did notice it a couple of weeks ago at Pewsey Vale and towards the end of the long race at Paradise, but today it was more annoying after yesterday's physio. I am going to assume it's ITB as usual and treat accordingly. Can't wait till the pool opens in 4 weeks' time.

Attack of the Killer Physio

I knew that I had gradually been getting more stiff and tight lately, but Kath complained that I actually bent her acupuncture needles! Won't do too much running this week, methinks.

I felt like I had ben hit by something solid when I woke up this morning, and the brain fuzziness wasn't reduced by coffee. It's no fun to have a hangover when you haven't even been drinking. Actually, lack of drinking yesterday may have been the problem. Eventually after some serious rehydration and accompanying salt intake my head cleared so that I could tell just how tired I really am!

Long day at Paradise. Course was better than I expected but length was overkill. At least it wasn't too hot though much of the course was out in the open and I got a bit sunburnt. The first half was in the steep shaly hills; I couldn't run well because my arches were so painful either from orthhotics or tape pulling, but they loosened up eventually. A couple of contouring-around-the-hillside route choices were less efficient than up and over. The second half was flatter and I stopped to wade through Newikie Creek and soak my head, so I survived okay and was still running solidly at the end but with no great speed.

Time losses: bad bearing out of the start and too far right to no 1 (45 sec?).
Contoured instead of up and over to 12 (1-2min?) which was the badly mapped pit, and although I came to the right place at the head of 2 creeks there was no control, so then I headed south to confirm the next creek was correct, then back again and still couldn't see a pit, heard a beep down the hill as someone punched it, still couldn't see it but thought I'd better check further down anyway. Control was right in the pit! 2-3 min.

Headed out of 12 lower than I should have then had to climb a lot to 13. Out of the drink control at 16 didn't go wide enough so scrambled up and down a few cliffs (30 sec). Was happy with my bearings on the vague legs towards the end. Could probably have been 5-7 min more efficient all up, hope to be a bit fresher in a couple of weeks' time.

Dragged the others geocaching around Tourilie Gorge afterwards and was completely exhausted by the time we got home...