Training Log Archive: jennycas

Event: Eureka Challenge
 

Chewton Diggings, mass start, 3 loops. I was slow but fairly clean through the first 2 short loops, only real time loss was going right over the hill and down into the adit. Surprised to be still running around people when I picked up my 3rd map. Not surprised to see that I still had half the course to go...ran up the track with Fel, then I staggered up the hill while she ran around. We got to the first control at the same time. A similar thing happened on the next long leg, except that Sarah appeared at the end. From there we 3 leapfrogged each other to the finish. Pretty happy with my run despite lack of hill strength. Think I am navigating more intelligently than usual (famous last words)

I broke the drive to Melbourne in Ballarat and went for a run on Nerrina with a map from a Hagaby in 2001 - only did one loop though. It's greener than 10 years ago and I had no strength on hills. Also my bearings on short legs were wonky. Will have to fix that tomorrow! I managed to resist the gravitational pull of numerous mineshafts (hauled myself up an embankment and nearly went headfirst into a pretty deep one...)

Somehow it was more important to sort out everything at home and work, in preparation for a week of not being there, than it was to take the half-bricks for a run...

Felt like I was impersonating a submarine a bit too successfully - it was a long way to come up for air. (Actually, can you use the verb 'to impersonate' about an inanimate object? And does a submarine count as inanimate when there are people inside it?)

Precautionary - since shins have been temporarily replaced by bricks. Surprisingly difficult to massage a brick. Came home from Aust champs carnival meeting feeling as though everything is on track, timewise, and for once I couldn't find anything to panic about :)

From Tyson/Troy's through Glenalta & Hawthorndene with the landlord, his tenant, Simon, Bridget, John. Simon picked the least hilly option(s) for which I was grateful but I still should have remembered that I am better off by not running on Mondays. Something is pulling in my back/right hip since the weekend but it should loosen up in a couple of days (just in time for driving 700km).

I spent a couple of hours at Narrinyeri Hills putting out tapes for the Arrows' training day in a couple of weeks' time. Planning a control picking exercise so in the end I just put pink tape on nearly every feature I came across! It's pretty dry out there currently and the tapes stand out, as will the flags, so on the day I'm thinking of just putting out stands without flags (mwahahaha)

The long course at Pt Elliott; it was fun. First half was in the sandhills and coastal wattle scrub north of the caravan park and some of the plate controls were tucked right into the bushes but I found the pink tapes okay. At one point something brown and undulating moved in the grass right under my feet. I'd like to think it was a bush rat but it was probably more sinuous. Second part was in the suburbs and along the cliffs. Some nice granite boulders :) The pavement was pretty hard on my shins so afterwards I stood in the ocean and jumped waves until I looked like a drowned bush rat.

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