Training Log Archive: jennycas

Squeezed in between catering for parents' garden club breakfast and a site visit to Para Wirra for the club relays with Tyson/Simon/John. It wasn't raining when I left home, or I may not have gone out...by the time I turned around at the far end of the valley it was absolutely bucketing down! I felt sorry for the little old ladies from the Mitcham Historical Association who were standing patiently with their umbrellas to tell anyone who cared, about the historic manure pits, as part of History Week. When I came back to Muggs Hill Rd there was water flowing across the ford, and I was soaked already, so I rode through :)

I actually put on my running gear and headed out the door before deciding that my knees weren't happy and a swim would be more pleasant. So then I was running late, and put a bit of effort in. And less strokes per lap were needed than usual. Maybe I almost found some rhythm.

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Tyson and Simon decided that Bridget needed to experience going through Echo Tunnel at night (it's brighter by night with torches than it is going through in the day). Then we went up past both waterfalls to the tap at the top of the park, down Saddle Hill Rd (my knees didn't like the descent) and back along Long Gully. It was nice to talk to Zara for once :) Oh, and it turns out that Bridget goes to uni with my cousin!

100% family stuff. After Beth's funeral we went back to the farm at Nairne - Grandfather is 94 and has lived all his life less than 10km from where he was born. Was good to catch up with various relatives etc but Susanne and I want to know why our Sargent cousins are all so much taller than us! (It's the Casanova cousins who are all short and round like me).

The 30s on component of tonight's fartlek, assuming we did 20 of these. Took a while to warm up, then my shins got a bit grumpy, but it wasn't too bad.

So, the session was actually 30s on, 1min off, around the north Adelaide loop with Susanne, Tyson, Simon, Bridget, Lauren, Robin & Adrian. Also we did a lap of the uni loop as warmdown.

Housework usurped the place of running. Not that I would have done 6 hours of running anyway. And now all the camping gear from the weekend is unpacked and the spare room ready for this week's interstate guests. And I still hate housework.

I decided a while ago that I'd run the M21 course because I really enjoy orienteering at Twigham, and I'm glad I did so. There's something about running through the mallee on a bearing, peering through the trees for a shallow gully to open out in front of you, which is really satisfying! Gerry made good use of the water drop as a pivot control which we came through 3 times. We had shorter legs early on, which I did pretty cleanly except for being slightly off when it came to finding the tiny rockfaces in the circle, then some long legs later in the course which made me think that the map may have been better at 1:15 000, because then I could have thumbed it more closely and my bearings wouldn't have been so dodgy (got in some relocation practice - oops).

This seemed way easier than last Sunday, can't think why! Not dissatisfied with my time in relation to Simon's 65 min, but I'd say 90min would have been a perfectly clean run for me.

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