Training Log Archive: jennycas

Plan was to ride up to the top gate of Belair NP (via Shepherds Hill Rd, then Queen Jubilee Drive - on which my hybrid tyres were almost too well-inflated for the loose gravel) but George was a bit late to pick me up so I rode all the way to the top of Sheoak Rd and wasn't any slower on the really steep bit than a guy on a road bike. Anyone who says riding isn't bad for your knees is sorely mistaken, though. My tendons are now twangling.

Also, I got a bit sunburnt on such a lovely spring day, embarrassingly across my lower back in a strip where my shirt rode up and my tights rode down, so to speak :(

C • knees 3

Over to Mortlock Park against a blustery easterly, then 4 laps running one side fast, one side normal. Surprised how consistent these turned out to be (and the recoveries too). Sides are not the same length:
49
1:07
52
1:07
52
1:07
52
1:06
51
1:07

To/from park, and recovery sides of park. Pretty tired and this felt like hard work but then even a normal run would have. Need to cut back on stretching as hamstring doesn't like it.

Redwoods and return with Fern, Zara/Callum, Bridgemon, and even John, lured by the promise of tacos. Started out pretty stiff in the knees despite warming up to meet Fern, but got better towards the end (or the Panadol kicked in) so pushed it a bit back from the playground. Followed by plentiful Mexican to celebrate Tyson's becoming licensed to be dangerous with a theodolite and Bridget's becoming no longer a poor uni student (just poor now).

So apparently I needed to get up earlier than 6am if I wanted to walk the dog, do a load of washing, go for a swim and not be late for work...

C • I hope 1

It's impossible to get to Morialta after work in time for a 6pm run so I was 10 min late and thought I'd missed the group, but caught up to them when they regrouped at Deep View. Tried to stride out when I wasn't in a line of people and so could see where I was putting my feet. Sure that I am getting stronger :) but the dowhill track is getting rougher.

I was instructed to meet the others at Blackwood Football club and Fern & Tyson turned up with a kidnapped Simon in the boot (not really). I said I'd never been to see the flood control dam up close so off we went, down Magpie Gully. We came across the dam from an unexpected direction, stood on the 30-metre wall and tried to imagine it ever filling up (Inconceivable!) then headed back up via some of the marked MTB singletracks in Craigburn. Nice evening for it but man, was I stuffed.

With Zoe, Fern, Tyson, Bridget, Simon, Zara. Knees actually felt all right (thanks to anti inflammatories) so tried to keep the pace steady. Followed the Heysen Trail across to the Aldgate-Mylor Rd and then some roads through the back of Aldgate before coming back along the main road. We didn't have time to get to Woorabinda lake because some of us had to be back in time for Wallaringa's social cryptic cargaine starting at Belair at 10am - which eventually took Wallaringans to Mylor (via Sheoak Rd, Ironbank Rd, Scott Bottom, Longwood and included a couple of cemeteries, a mine tunnel and a lemon-seller). It seems that parents & I managed to win this by the barest of margins but I hope that wasn't because I marked our answer sheet too generously!

The ride I didn't have time for 36 hours ago. Still warm out, and the jacaranda trees are starting to flower along our street.