Training Log Archive: jennycas

Figured I'd better do something after a fairly sedate day, plentiful takeaway Indian, and a modicum of cider. Still pretty warm out yet there were campfires in the caravan park - I'd have thought that wouldn't be allowed! Managed to beat the darkness back to the suburbs (just).

Glad I wimped out and drove up the hill rather than running up, because there were enough hills on the course. Start was at St Johns Grammar on Gloucester Ave and there were a few controls within its grounds. Hard to explain which ones I left out, and harder still to tell if they were the optimal ones, because of the way the roads link together in that area, contouring round a hill and dropping into a valley, so that a longer route around a hill may actually have been faster. I left out 3 in the SE corner, and the 2 northernmost ones, but this meant an in-and-out on a steep hill (36), and also at the end I had thought I could get back into the school over the fence but it was uncrossable, then through a gate but it was locked, so ended up going back in the main entrance I had left by originally. I can now definitely find slightly longer routes with less climb, but am not absolutely certain they would have been faster. Running hard didn't feel easy, but was less difficult than a few weeks ago. Pity that Summer Series is now over, and pity that it was split into male & female divisions this year, so I never had anyone to compare routes/times with.

But there are 4 more Snap Sprint Series events to look forward to :)

To the redwoods, very tired on this lovely evening. So I didn't go up the hill with the others, but back along the creek - and pushed a bit harder, so that although not sprinting like we used to, I kept it steady and only took 20 min to get back.

Event: Snap Sprint Series
 

Hamstrings have really tightened up since yesterday. Felt even slower than I was.

Snap Sprint Series starts tonight!

The first of the SSS events, on the Torrens near Adelaide Uni, was pretty popular tonight and Bridget had thought of everything in the planning thereof :)

When the starts had quietened down I seized the chance to go around Simon's long course, having worn running gear in optimism because I really like orienteering around the uni (it's impossible to tell where Adelaide Uni finishes and UniSA City East starts - unless you've been to uni there). Great course; sometimes I took too many stairs when going wider would have been faster, and once I read the wrong set of stairs and hunted for a control at the wrong bottom of them, but I really enjoyed myself - and didn't take a shortcut through the buildings in Hughes Plaza, unlike a number of the men who should have known better!

Beautiful sunset afterwards as I was collecting controls. It will be pretty dark in Belair at 8pm on a Wednesday in 4 weeks' time, though.

Went to do hills in Shepherds Hill. Extended warmup and stretching was necessary (must get stuck into ITBs tonight) and then I did 3 x 3-minute hill:

3:12 - tried to bounce on my toes
3:15 - mind wandered a little...
3:03 - this was a bit of a surprise as I had dug deep to combat the fatigue, hoping for 3:10

Thought about doing another ascent after that but figured there would be no benefit gained 'cos my legs were now empty. Did run the longer way home which meant climbing one more hill. The temperature differential between valley and ridgeline was quite noticeable.

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Fern was in running gear when I arrived at Eden Hills! With Troy & Tyson we went down Winns Rd, through Blackwood forest and back. Legs were heavy but also I could tell that my core muscles had been used yesterday (and that I've been a bit slack with the relevant exercises).

Arranged for an agent to come through and value our place and he reckoned $360-380K which I'd hope is a little conservative, but then the market is pretty flat at the minute. Anyone who bought here would probably just knock it down, which is kind of sad, as one of the things we're most attached to is the green-and-jungle-like nature of the garden. That, and the fact we can both walk to work :)

I think of Kuitpo as a boring place to orienteer but I always look forward to the first terrain run of the season there (although the Sunday after Black Saturday felt very strange). While Fern rode her MTB around a course which Tyson had set for her, Greg, Lauren, Bridget, Simon, Tyson and I ran around and up and down and over logs - and happened to meet Fern halfway. For the first half hour I felt really good, bouncy even, but then right hamstring/hip started to fatigue and it was more of a struggle to lift legs over logs from then on. Am curious to note that when I'm doing core stuff my left side seems to work hard while my right just coasts, yet it's the right which is troublesome when I need to lift my feet. So which side is actually weaker?

Gluttons for punishment, Lauren & I ran around Paul Hoopmann's 'windows & contours' course together and since she hadn't brought a compass, we took turns at the bearing legs. Not a bad course and certainly a way to get some extra distance in quite companionably. Tired legs now!

http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-pas...

Geoff really likes it and I can see that there's a lot of versatility, heaps of storage space, and a good bit of bushland at the bottom of the block. Only problem is, being in the Hills face zone, that we may not get permission to fence it for the dog's benefit.

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