Training Log Archive: jennycas

Left home about 6:30am to collect Simon and head for Bri Glen (Easter Day 1) which we reached not too long after 10am. Spent a long but fruitful day taping 70 control sites and documenting some minor map revisions. There were some impressive views from hilltops but the route choices will (mostly) go around them. I started out very stiff and inflexible and right hip/groin was quite horrible but responded to some anti inflammatories at lunch time. Decided to leave the last 15 controls until tomorrow and headed for Jamestown and a motel room behind the pub - and picking up something which young Geoff had happened to leave behind at a building site on Thursday!

Perfect balmy evening at the beach so I took parents with me for an airing and they walked the short course in about the same time I took to do 15 scatter controls. Marino's not flat but I handled the hills steadily, if with no speed. Decided it was a no-brainer to leave out the controls up the hill near the lighthouse though. Right side groin was pretty painful after the long downhill to the coast and I wonder if it's the same problem I had 2 weeks ago in the same new shoes :(

Trainline-steps loop with Zara/Callum/Bear, B&S, Nic. Started out pretty slowly but warmed up by the (not always) magical 20-minute mark and so was able to go a bit faster coming back along the creek, ending up half a minute better than 2 weeks ago. Then spent until 11pm doing Easter stuff with Simon in advance of this weekend's control-taping trip. Now down to 85 controls :)

My back was oh so tight today and I really struggled going uphill, which accounted easily for my being a couple min slower than pre-Christmas. Anyway, sampled some blackberries at 3rd falls and managed to stride out a bit more on the way back down. Nice evening for it.

C • Blackberries 8

The forecast was for drizzle, which had manifested, so it was a good morning for a longer run except that the rocks along the river might be slippery. I took the Riverside Walk on the south side of the Lane Cove River which was much less rough than the Great North Walk, and when I got to the weir/Fullers Bridge I decided to come back along the same path rather than the parallel bitumen road because that would be softer on my hips & knees. Tried to make my 'trailing' leg do more of the work than it usually does because I can tell that the muscles on that side are less developed - and actually got back in the same time I'd taken for the outward journey, despite the uphill section from the river to the hotel. Highlight of the run was hearing whip-birds, but I couldn't see them. I startled plenty of pukekos and a scrub turkey, though.

Event: Sydney Sprint Series #2
 

Macquarie Uni sprint on a warm afternoon. A good course with a couple of potential traps courtesy of James Lithgow. On 12 I fully expected the control (wall end) to be on an upper level but couldn't read that there were not stairs at that point - the fold in my map meant that the map detail had cracked off just there - and on 16 I knew that it would be on the upper level of the northern carpark, which could be reached from the southern carpark, but I didn't realise that I didn't need to go all the way to the top level of the southern carpark, so went up (and down) a couple of unnecessary flights of stairs. Those were minor things though and the rest was down to lack of fitness.

I did tape my ankles for luck, though - couldn't very well not do so after all the fuss with security at Adelaide Airport yesterday morning where they queried the tape as viewed on the screening x-ray and instead of accepting my word that it was for ankle strapping (as they usually do) actually wanted to see it. And of course it was packed right in the middle of my weekend pack and not in the pocket as it often is. So the lady got sick of hauling out pyjamas etc in the middle of the screening area (I wasn't allowed to touch the bag myself, much less put a hand inside to get the tape out) and we had to go into a private room where I finally showed her the bloody tape and then she decided to take it away to ask someone else if it was allowed - she came back saying that it was wider than regulation (for goodness' sake, 3.8cm wide is standard for sports tape) but it was ok because it wasn't gaffer tape. If it had been, I would have gaffer taped her up, I swear...

Maybe need anger management course before travelling overseas?

C • Tape 9

Sprint - Splits