Training Log Archive: jennycas

Since we were going to a concert, er I mean festival*, at McLaren Vale, I deided to ride there and be met by Geoff with a change of clothes. This worked out well, although heading south for a couple of hours was into a headwind nearly all the way. From Reynella I decided to take the Coast to Vines rail trail which parallels Main South rd on the east side, rather than the bike path alongside the expressway which would have been more exposed and has more ups & downs. Favourably impressed with the rail trail; even though it is a bit slower and has more road crossings, it was more scenic and sheltered.

*The Gorgeous Festival**. Not a particularly original name, or very well promoted/attended (possibly because of $100 tickets - and they would have done much better not to charge twice that for an enclosed seated area right at the front with hardly anyone in it) but a good lineup including Josh Pyke and Icehouse. Now, if ever I am a guest on Rockwiz, I will have to answer the question 'what was the first album you bought?' with Man of Colours (but in actual fact Susanne & I bought it jointly at the newsagent in Pt Lincoln, Christmas 1988). And I will say that although Iva Davies looks nothing like he did in 1988, he sounds exactly the same, and I do like a band which doesn't rearrange its songs/instrumentation too much. So I was favourably impressed with the live music, although I did notice that it was possible to sit not so far outside the arena and watch it for free!

**I don't see how it can legitimately be called a festival when it only goes for an evening!

I like being in the pool when it's being rained on.

Went to the OrienteeringSA presentation night, came home with the John Hall Memorial Service award - nice. Guess I have been a bit busy doing stuff for orienteering lately.

To the redwoods then up the singletrack with Zara/Callum, Fern, Tyson, John, Andrew. Really pleasant night to be out in the bush, we saw the massive roo and his concubines. Z & I continued up past the dam to Jubilee Drive and came back down the steps, then I ran her home across the golf course. We both bemoaned our lack of speed. I do love running once I've warmed up, but I stiffen up again so quickly afterwards.

Intermediate loop in the park. At first my whole right leg didn't want to play but it gradually loosened up so I could stride out a bit - awkwardly though because of hamstring. I'm not really sure what's set it off this time; the twinge I noticed when walking to work Monday was obviously a warning sign. Managed to get home from the park slightly faster than I've been doing lately so that was good. Not sorry though that I slept through my alarm and didn't have time for a longer run!

Thought I'd see what the new track does on the way up to Deep View, since it's now been configured as the default, going off to the west from the first corner and coming back in from the third corner. Basically instead of doing the shorter steep zig then zag, you do a longer flatter zag then zig. Just before joining back in at the 3rd corner, another track came contouring in from the left, but I'll leave exploring that for another day. Went all the way into 3rd falls; the blackberries on the way in are so overgrown that I exited by going up to the road and coming down from Pretty Corner, cautiously on the rough singletrack. Definitely I'm in one-speed-fits-all mode at the minute; not sure how to break out of it.

But I did make an excellent lasagna for dad's birthday dinner.

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Had plans of a terrain run in Mt Crawford forest but knee was twinging after yesterday's bike ride so just did a short loop on the back roads from our B&B at Springton. Nice to be out in the country, felt like a proper weekend away :) Especially as we afterwards drove the back roads from Eden Valley down to Sedan, back up to Moculta.