Training Log Archive: jennycas

Rather slow and stiff-backed this morning. (Had sort of a hangover after going to the pub for dinner - didn't even drink any alcohol, but the cigarette smoke does that to me anyway).

So completely fatigued this afternoon, and really hot & thirsty by the time I got to the park, but couldn't get a drink at the archery butts because the red flag was flying. Felt better after washing my face in the creek, but think I am going to be rather a wuss about 31 degrees in Penrith next week.

So many mornings I have come up with excuses x, y, z why it's not convenient to go for a ride, when really it's just that I am afraid of falling off again. Nearly turned around at the end of the street, my adductors were so horrible - but stuck it out. Should do this more often!

Unley pool opened for the 'summer' on Sunday and so I went for a swim this morning. It was nice :) and my hammered legs appreciated this.

Attack of the Killer Physio
I'm away next week, and Kath's away the week after, so I managed to get my tight hips, knees and shins in to see another physio, who created a jenniarsus porcupinus.

This time the feeling of fatigue hit after about 7 min. But I made it to Long Gully and after that Tyson said we were going up the steps. Which weren't as bad as I thought they might be. We came back down Jubilee Drive.

This time I hit the wall 10 minutes in - rather a bugger because I had 90 minutes planned. Dragged it out to 40 min by picking up Geoff's car from work since he's away the next couple of nights; highlight of the run was seeing two lifesize fibreglass cows in someone's front garden. Asics has re-branded their 2100 series and gone back to calling the shoes GT-2000, but they've put the toe cushioning into their 3000 series, methinks.

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Put on my running gear, ran for about 5 minutes, decided I was absolutely wrecked from dealing with the hospital accreditation surveyors (have another meeting tomorrow also) and went home to drink cider. That was long enough to break in new shoes, right? The latest model Asics are rather...technicolour. George described my new shoes as having had a unicorn throw up on them; I suggested that the unicorn had just eaten a fairy! They have hot pink laces, too. And this time the free socks were supplied upon delivery. They are purple :)

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Fern & Tyson & I ran over to Bridget & Simon's to call them soft for not coming running - and then we ran home again! All of 3 minutes 22 seconds each way :)

What can I say, we're social creatures...

Urgh, people started getting ready to prepare breakfast about 6am. I definitely hadn't been asleep long enough. Headed out 9amish control collecting on Ulooloo, with George driving and dropping me & Zara to get half a dozen controls each. I started with the trig point on Scrub Hill (which was a climb as steep as any in the 6hr last month) but then once on the ridgeline could run quite a bit, always into a headwind it seemed, with the controls I'd tucked under one arm trying to blow away from me.

By the time we got back to the HH it was 1pm, but at least there had been volunteers to collect all the other controls :) some of them people who hadn't been able to find a particular control during the event and wanted to go back to it. But we got pretty good feedback on the course and the country, and didn't lose anyone down a cliff/mineshaft - apparently last week's insurance saga was triggered by an article on the rogaine in the local paper, which the landowner's insurance agent read and then he said to them "You do realise you're not covered if anything happens to anyone...?" Anyway, nothing did happen to anyone, and I think mum & dad & Zara (to whom I owe lots of gratitude for their collaboration on the rogaine, which has taken up the last 6 months) and I can sleep well tonight.

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