Training Log Archive: jennycas

Last one for the season, but September's not far away. Hip was pulling tightly and time was slow. My calves need to play with the foam roller.

Got some fresh air after a day of necessary - and successful for once - retail therapy. Much as I hate braving the wilds of Westfield Marion (AKA 'The Jungle'), it was weirdly therapeutic to spend money; the minute that ANZ security rang me to tell me that someone had tried to use 'my' Visa card at a hotel in New York and therefore they were going to cancel it for me, I suddenly thought of all these things I desperately needed to buy! Took the corners pretty cautiously. Didn't tell my bike that I had also spent some of today looking into the possibility of replacing it with a proper MTB...

Knees feeling their age today but it was a nice crisp night. Zara & I ended up doing the trainline-steps-lake loop in reverse, and we finished off by going through the hawthorn-thicket maze because I wanted to see the maze now that it's been 'rejuvenated'. It's rather underwhelming, even in the moonlight.

Shepherds Hill, Eden Hills, Bellevue Heights, Flinders Uni. Nearly got stuck with courtyard-building works in Sturt campus but followed the steady stream of students through a building to find the way out (something you're not allowed to do in sprint races). This should have been a good run because it was a nice drizzly morning and everything is fresh & green in the park - but legs never felt good running. Knees seem to be tight from hip to ankle.

Probably should have done this yesterday, 'cos I was pretty stiff then. Annoyed to find that I had apparently used up my last (virtual) ticket last week. I know I've twice counted back through my log and even taking into account the days I took friends to the pool, had only reached 29!

With the girls: Liv, Bun, Emily & Biddy. A bit stop-start because we were all feeling a bit flat. Probably not surprising that on a girls' run, by the time we got to the cinema on O'Connell St, 3 of us were desperate enough to ignore two notices saying "toilets are for patrons only" and so Liv put on her best manners to ask politely if we "could use the bathroom", which request was instantly granted. Must go back there and watch a movie some time :)

Wow, I had nothing in my legs today, and wearing spikes made them even more hammered. Trotted across the hillsides fairly cleanly but had to walk a surprising number of the steep little pinches out of each creek. Good course from Steve, made use of the linear ridges and we got into some really nice mallee at the north end of the map. Was buggered afterwards though, and even more so after driving home - but all 52 of our rogaine control sites are now tagged and waypointed :) Estimated distance to get them all: about 80km.