Training Log Archive: jennycas

Not-very-quick lap of the park in the evening sunshine. Legs directed themselves around the familiar loop without much input from the head, which was still processing everything from the day's activities. Okay, so Geoff & I didn't get very far with dress-hunting. But we did meet with the nice celebrant lady, so now the second of the scary activities is out of the way, and we did price some cakes and wedding rings, and are still standing, which indicates that the prices weren't completely outrageous...

Oh, and a rather large koala has taken up residence in the smallish Coffin Bay mallee tree in our back garden! The dog can't understand why his new friend won't come down to play with him :)

C • koala's in Daw Park?! 2

The damp morning smell of drying grass along the creek valley reminds me of rogaining in NZ, or maybe camping in Tasmania - things to do in summertime. Campers have already set up illegally, upstream from the caravan park!

C • Occupy Brownhill Creek? 4

Trainline - steps loop with Zara. Had to keep trying not to step on Callum. Fern, Tyson and John (runningjohn!) were with us for a bit. Think I should treat myself to new running shoes this weekend. Maybe as a reward for surviving weddingdressshopping (if I survive. Couldn't believe that Zara & Fern were voluntarily & spontaneously offering to come too!).

C • Have fun! 6

Three Hills loop, stuck in the one gear for most of it. Nice & cool but needle grass getting in socks is a pain lately. Also so was hamstring/neuroma towards the end, predictable in these shoes. Dwarfs along for the ride today were: Sleepy, Sneezy and Dopey :)

The weekend's efforts caught up with me and everything seemed a bit of an effort...struggling to muster enthusiasm for the challenges of Black Hill on Sunday, I must admit. (Taking grandfather to the Callington Show would be the less strenuous option.)

Swimming is not the smartest thing to attempt with a cold but it was too nice a morning not to and I splodded* along sedately. Feeling extra clean now :)

*conglomeration of splashed and plodded!

The redshirts set forth from Tyson's, around the rim of Shepherds Hill in the direction of Gloucester Ave, and were joined halfway there by a blueshirt. For no obvious reason the hills seemed more manageable tonight.

My streets, my town, my valley, my...dam? Noted from the proliferation of banners by the proposed flood control dam wall site, that the community meeting is this Wed night, and later, when the guy driving his little red bomb along the creek road, handing out NO DAM flyers to people, offered me one, I said I was thinking of going along anyway.