Training Log Archive: jennycas

'Twas fairly cold when I went out but turned into a lovely morning for being in the park although I was plodding and knees were rather stiff. Pulled weeds for 3 hours in the afternoon which I am surely going to regret tomorrow.

Sides of Mortlock Park, approx 200m but variable in length, one side recovery in between: 200(49), 400(2:13), 600(3:14), 400(2:02), 200(49), 200(1:02)
Muscles were completely fatigued, from head to toe and not forgetting arms and hands. I suspect the ingestion of Panadol beforehand exacerbated this.

To/from park and recoveries. Managed not to be late for work :)

With Zara/Callum up Olave Hill Rd then along the park boundary and down the bitumen from Melville House, back along Long Gully. Knees took a while to loosen up but then were mostly okay. Hands got cold by the end.

Rather a slog up the hill (lack of practice probably explains why I found hills so tough on Sunday) but the sun was just peeping over Mt Lofty when I got to the top of Randell's and the morning had the smell of approaching spring even though it's only June and there's lots more of winter to come. Kept expecting knees to give out on me on the way back down but surprisingly they didn't.

7x 200 @ 90% with 200 float @75%. Took a while to find the balance between them. Knee had been terrible in the warmup but miraculously ok thereafter.

With Biddy, Liv, Emily, Fern

Thought I'd give my knees a rest because they deserved it, having held up pretty well despite running every day for the last couple of weeks. Maybe that's because I wasn't sitting at a desk...

Peter A had set good courses using a small but tough part of the map - I do like Narrinyeri but wasn't very good at it today, being too low down the creek on 1 (poor bearing out of start) stuffing up the boulder on 4 mightily even though I'd come from the bare rock less than 100m away, and then being too high on 12 and finding the boulder with a tape not the rockface with a control. Also I was generally pretty slow; my knees weren't happy today and I was starving from about halfway round. Had volunteered to help collect controls because I wanted to go out into the bush again but was grateful to be able to talk the OA president into job-sharing with me.

Now I have to psych myself up for going to work tomorrow...took about a week and a half of a 2-week trip to stop stressing about everything that had been bothering me before I went away (some of it quite random) but started to get that panicked feeling again when I drove past the hospital tonight.