Training Log Archive: jennycas

Shepherds Hill, Eden Hills, Bellevue Heights, Flinders Uni. Took it easy, not thinking about how slow this was. Still, the fresh breezy (sometimes downright gusty) morning was pleasant and hamstring didn't become troublesome until the start of the descent through the uni.

Mmm waffles...didn't know Tip Top makes them but there were good bakery smells this morning. Also nice & cool & cloudy - perfect for bushwalking in Tasmania. Unfortunately, I had to go to work instead.

Started in a downhill direction from the start, hoping that I'd have warmed up a bit by the time it came to going uphill again, but no such luck. Legs were dead and tight on even the slightest incline; am starting to verify the theory that swimming is bad for hamstrings. Saw Kate & baby at the event, not to mention a sighting of a Jymbo.

Wow, so fatigued! Everyone turned out for Tyson's Birthday Run, which turned into a sort of Simon Says, along quite a few singletracks we don't normally take. Then Simon said "We're going up the big hill" and I said "I'm going home instead". You reckon that 3 meetings in 3 nights may have caught up with me?

Tired legs today, struggled up the hill, but the view from the ridgeline out over Glenelg and the ocean was adequate reward. Made it home from the park in 11:35 which was a surprise.

Came home from OSA management meeting at 8:30pm, hungry but needed a run. Saw a beautiful pink sunset rainbow :) Hip better, hamstring worse. Hello Mr Spiky Peanut (ow ow ow).

Legs felt ok immediately after the run yesterday but when I woke up this morning I pretty much couldn't walk because right hip was so bad (accelerator side, and I never managed to get the seat adjusted right in our hire car).

Anyway, was walking less like Lurch by the end of the day so went for a short run over to the park, stretched lots, ran back, sweated lots, thought about rolling on the spiky peanut but was saved from that agony by having to go to Wallaringa meeting.

Just a bit flat, really. Made it up the Arthurs Seat hill okay, even marginally faster for the first 4km than last year, got caught in a train of people who were more tentative than I wanted to be on the singletrack around the hillside so couldn't stride out much, was completely empty (and rather dry) by the bottom of the big hill at about 7km, would have been perfectly happy to just sit down and go to sleep by the roadside. Made myself eat a nutrigrain bar through 7-9 and keep plodding along the farm roads as everyone I'd overtaken on the descent passed me again, also people from the 2nd wave start (Jase was powering along). I took nearly 25 min for 8-12, but kept reminding myself that the next 15km would be way better than the first 12, looking forward to getting into Greens Bush. Which really is nice: lots of little ups & downs & boardwalks & footbridges among stringybarks & yakkas. Only problem was that I'd often catch people on the downhill, overtake them just at the bridge, then get passed on the climb out of the creek - everyone must have thought I was so rude! Also couldn't easily drink on the run with the bottles I had and needed to stop to scull each time I got thirsty - very lucky that it was a cool cloudy morning.

Started leapfrogging a (possibly English or maybe Kiwi) girl from about 16km, and continued to do so until the very end. The 27km marker was a bit early and although I figured I could hold her off for 300m no worries, it turned out to be a bit further than that and so she took the finish sprint.

Ended up a couple min slower than last year. Not happy with that but given that I died at about 8km, was satisfied with the resurrection - and also after last week's run had thought I could even be as slow as 2:45. So it was okay. Felt like a bit of a fraud afterwards having driven back to Dromana and then seeing the 56km runners finishing, but no way I could even have contemplated the return run!

4km splits - assuming the markers were in the same place as last year)

2012 2011
26:16 26:33
21:03 19:24
24:50 30:14 (5km to 13)
22:29 16:22 (3km to 16)
21:57 21:05
23:35 23:18
19:57 21:13 (3.3km)
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2:40:08 2:38:13

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