Training Log Archive: jennycas

Rather flat all day - haven't really managed to catch up with myself lately, much less with George, but made it up the hill and back again before parents came for dinner. Somewhat painful on the legs, but also refreshing for lungs & brain. I took a different track in Randell's reserve and found a quarry I should have known about years ago. Pretty sure one of Brendan's Mitcham Hills Quarries geocaches is in there!

Scammed this one without meaning to. Electronic card wouldn't scan (there had been problems with the turnstile over summer) and so I presented it to the ticket window and was told that I had used the last visit up last week! I protested that 2 visits ago I'd been told that there were 2 left (on another day when the card wouldn't scan - presumably they told me that I had 2 left BEFORE they deducted that day's visit) and since the pool's closing for the winter on Sunday, the attendant let me in anyway. I had been about to go back to the car and get cash...

Attack of the Killer Masseuse
Are you sure that childbirth is more painful than this...?

C • I can say it is similar! 2

Short run up to train line and back with F&T, B&S, Z&C. I was the only one not wearing tights. Ran Zara home across the golf course by which time hands were cold and torch dim.

Flinders Uni loop. Very tired this morning and it showed in the slowness, although as I could feel hamstring getting tighter then I could feel neuroma coming into play. Stopped for a drink and to stretch at the hour mark which made the way home more bearable. Decided that headache was a combination of dehydration and caffeine withdrawal.

North Adelaide loop with Fern & Tyson. Robin cut it short and Simon, doing intervals, occasionally floated past us. I tried to push fairly hard and since my knee had benefited from the rest day, afterwards did a lap of the uni loop 200 hard/200 normal; my 6x200s were between 44 and 46 (couldn't even run fast enough to gt out of breath) and my reward was seeing Wendy and hearing all about how she ran in the North Face 100km on the weekend.

C • HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNY! 12

Feeling old. (And older tomorrow...)

Donated some money to OA by running in this as it was a badge event and therefore about $10 more than an OY would have been. Really wasn't in the mood for orienteering; slept erratically despite an early night, legs had even less in them than yesterday and the news of Jeffa's stroke was rather unsettling (although John, at the start, sounded positive - and he'd put a lot of effort into planning what was a good course if you felt like doing a long middle). Never got above a jog - knee didn't like going uphill or hamstrings downhill, but the day and the forest were pleasant and neuroma didn't make its presence felt until 2/3 of the way through. Didn't even manage to break 10 min/km :(

C • Not all OA's fault 3