Training Log Archive: jennycas

Here's a good thing: it has been arranged with Transition Zone that the late fee won't now be applied until Monday 23rd, and they will refund any late fees already charged for online entries. Hard copy entries can be postmarked up until Monday and they won't attract a late fee either.

(If I am already slightly stressed about the Aust champs carnival, what am I going to be like in 5 weeks' time? Probably would help if I had received more than 60% of the contributions I need for the start book by now...)

C • Start times 5

3 Hills Loop, with detour via polling booth which was reached after precisely 3 1/2 minutes (I then found the back way out of Pasadena High, which isn't interesting enough to make into a map). Very tired today even after so-called rest day yesterday, but I enjoyed investigating the waterfalls on the side creek in the park. There are 4 little cascades, none of them nearly as speccy as Morialta or anything in Litchfield, but they are my falls, in my park, where I have been running since 1997, and this is at least as good as I've seen them previously. Hamstrings were very tight, especially on hills, because of having spent the afternoon in the garden (my goal is to have it presentable enough so that I can have people round for a BBQ the first weekend of the Aust champs carnival, since that's the only part of that week I'll actually be at home).

C • Did you vote in mid-run? 2

If anyone is trying to enter the Aust champs online today (and entries close today; you did know that, right?) you'll find that Transition Zone is already applying the late fee which isn't meant to apply until midnight tonight - so I suggest that you download, fill out, and post off a hard copy entry form...

Attack of the Killer Physio
According to Kath, my hamstrings are very well-developed. I'll take her word for this since I've never seen them.

With Fern, Bridget, Zara/Callum. Managed to fit this in between a couple of icy rain showers. We ended up on roads in the suburbs because tracks in the park were so squelchy!

Across to (and from) Vincent's to pick up a set of what is hopefully the final version of the Aust champs maps. There was enough daylight for a bit of a Brownhill Creek detour, where I got overtaken by a guy on a MTB using the track while I was on the road. I am starting to see why people on bikes spontaneously race each other, 'cos I suddenly evolved an inclination to chase him!

The 3-minute hill again. Didn't improve on last time's times because I turned out to be even tireder. But I'm sure that running hard up hills when you are buggered at the end of an orienteering race is a very important skill to develop.
2:59
3:03
3:05
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Across to Shepherds Hill 20:45, run home again 18:17 (different routes) downhill recoveries on singletrack 10min. Knees pretty tight afterwards.

With Bridget from the Uppills' through Hawthorndene to Blackwood forest, and back up the creek. She showed me the house where she used to live, and that the semi-derelict cottage in the corner of the forest has been turned into a gallery space. We peered through the windows by torchlight and observed that the medium which has been used for the current artworks on display is apples (peeled, dried, and made into patterns)!

Last Darwin run (for some time). With Sus from home across to Mindil Beach and then basically a waterfront lap of the CBD including the lagoon with the artificial wave pool (yes, seriously) and back through Stuart Park. Knees have been getting more troublesome from running in the same shoes all week, and they didn't enjoy the stairs, but I enjoyed the company :)