Training Log Archive: jennycas

Before work. Pool was popular for a Saturday morning. A bit of Brownian motion going on in my lane.

Parked at the golf course car park and rode the length of Long Gully (and back) to pick fat juicy blackberries at the far end. While I was almost hidden in a blackberry thicket the emus came drumming up to inspect my bike and walked right around it before deciding that it posed no threat, and heading back down the valley!

Not sure about my route choice on this one. Guess that means it was well set :) Only options for crossing the train line were at Lynton Station or above the tunnel. The way I went round (anticlockwise) meant going up Hillrise but then I got to see what the contouring MTB singletrack is like. Still not sure if I left out the optimal 5 controls. Right at the end I had to do a sort of doubleback for one I'd left out earlier, because the one I thought was on my direct route would have involved a doubleback also.

I couldn't, in good conscience, have driven to this event when it took me a whole 10 minutes to run there from home. Of course, after I got home I then drove the whole 500m into work when I got called to check out a (false) alarm.

I did actually set out to do this yesterday morning but it was too 'cold and windy'...found where the wind had been hiding when I turned the corner at Tilleys Hill Rd today. But this was mostly nice, and the redbrowed/firetailed finches were flitting about. Daydreaming about getting a bike with suspension though.

C • bikes 3

We were playing Simon Says again but tonight I felt more like joining in. Even Cheryl came to play too for a little while! Long Gully, Saddle Hill Rd then left up towards the train line, right next to the tunnel we climbed up a really steep footpad above it, came out at the dam, went down past the waterfalls then along the creek from Pines Oval. This run showcased all that I really like about having Belair NP on my doorstep and being able to run through the park :)

Aargh, work is even more horrible than I thought it would be this week with the reconfiguration of the wards and the clinical units. But the dessert calzone at cafe Luna Rosso was really, really good. Time to get back on the wagon soon methinks.

C • Rest Days 2

Because I deserve it :)
Will have to remind myself soon that cake and chocolate are 'sometimes foods'...but the leftover wedding cake is all gone now (apart from the fruitcake layer which we are keeping for some particular future occasion; don't ask me - I'm not the one who eats fruitcake)!

Arrows run from F&T's before Arrows meeting. Magpie Gully and Coro Station.

An impressive turnout of Arrows & associates at Bridgewater this morning; anyone would think they were all in town for some event :)

We headed out along the Heysen Trail towards Woodhouse with Vanessa, Simon, Bridget, Andrew, Tracy, Susanne, Blair, Reuben, Zara, Bruce, Lauren, Tyson, Robin, John. I think that's all! The boys had cleverly arranged leaving a couple of cars at the summit so most of the one-wayers continued along Sprigg Rd from the bottom of the steepness while the rest of us went UP the Heysen Trail. I found a geocache near the top; there was a hollow tree on a track bend which looked to me like a perfect hiding place and so it turned out to be!

Didn't hurry to leave the summit, having said goodbye to Tracy here, and 7 of us (Bruce, Blair, Simon, Zara, Vanessa, Lauren & myself) headed back down through the botanic gardens, since the gates were open. I veered a bit far left of the lakes, and hit the carpark lower than we had arranged to meet. When I got to the right spot only Simon was there, so the others must have had more fun than I did.

Legs had been ok although tired until now but my knee started to twinge on the long bitumen descent past Woodhouse, so I took the last bit through Mt George pretty easy. It was a lovely scenic run though, and great that we had so many takers today.