Training Log Archive: jennycas

Went up to Bri Glen with Simon - he's setting the Saturday of next Easter and I'm controlling - and as well as checking out start/finish/assembly areas we each ran a course. Great course, but my knees didn't enjoy getting in and out of all the creeks and erosions. I pretty much knew that Simon would be finished by the time I came through the specta(tor)ctular leg, and so it proved. If this had been a race today I definitely would have been at least 25 min behind Lizzie. But at least the temperature was only about half (ok, not when relative to absolute zero) of what it would have been yesterday. Found a great new little café in Burra on the way back :)

Dropped my car off for a service, struggled home through CLG (checked out an unmapped laneway). Knees felt the hardness of the ground and it was already rather warm out.

A bit better than Tuesday although I'm not sure why my knee was clicking. The jets of warm water from the bottom of the pool were slightly too warm.

Redwoods return run with Bridget, Nick, Angus. Legs and brain felt better than I thought they might after staying up late wrestling with online tax last night and sitting in my office for far too much of today.

Attack of the Killer Masseuse
Sometimes I think it would be worth giving up running in order to avoid such torture. But my muscles get horribly tight doing nothing anyway!

Not very efficient this morning, maybe because I was distracted by trying to recall what it was which we Wallaringans found so sporadically hilarious - both individually and collectively - at last night's meeting.

Legs still a bit hammered from Sunday so took it easy into First Falls and up past Giant's Cave with Bridget, Charlotte, Sarah. Just before the end though, we found the zigzag singletrack marked towards Hogan's Hill so went up there and came down the boundary fence.

Over to Hahndorf via the Heysen Trail spur (we yelled at the girls to hurry up and cross the line before the train we could hear coming arrived, but turned out it still had to make its way up the hill from Balhannah) and then to Verdun, up Silver Rd, back via the waterhole on Cox Creek. I always find the Hahndorf-Verdun section along the road really boring, and it was hard on my knees, but the rest was nice. The forecast rain and thunder had already been and gone; less of both than I'd have liked.

Detoured via Stirling markets with Z afterwards and found the perfect birthday present for Geoff - a scale model of the solar system, as a ceiling mobile :)

C • move 4

Piffle. Of course it's not to scale. How daft am I? Otherwise, if we hang it in the new house, Pluto would need to be in the old house. Also the sun needs to be about 10x larger to provide any meaningful sense of scale. Actually I don't think any of the planets are in proportion - but it does look cool.
This just makes me want to create my own, really-to-scale, model :)