Training Log Archive: jennycas

Up Randell's, down Gloucester. Seemed a wee bit humid and I was sweating buckets on the ascent; needed to rest and stretch at the top. The breeze on the way down was nice though, and so I thought that if I could just grab a drink from the toilets at the shopping centre I'd be right to go up Hillrise for a bonus hill and back across the trainline. The only flaws in this plan were that the water from the taps in the toilets at Pasadena Green is hot water only, and that I got a bit sunburnt by the end.

Just riding to/from Perry Ave was enough to upset my knees.

Really would have liked to finish everything I needed to do at work before 8pm (the tireder I get, the slower I get) but losing the afternoon on Wed to a meeting in the city set the rest of my week back by half a day as usual.

After a meeting in town, figured I'd go for a decent run before WA committee meeting at the Cuttens' at Rosslyn Park, but some of the time window was used up by going for drinks with colleagues, so this was a short but steep and scenic, gin-and-tonic-fuelled run up Kensington Rd through Auldana to the Skye ridgeline at 400m then back down Coach Rd and The Parade.

C • WA? 4

First Morialta run of the season for me (also don't know when I last went on a group run). We went up to Deep View then across to the top of First Falls & down. Think I need to get a bit fitter!

Afterwards Brian & Charmaine joined us for dinner which was nice, because this is his last week as an Arrow :(

Verrry tired today, not helped by being awake before 5 for a 7am flight back to Adelaide. Work was not noticeably productive! Also my shoulders were surprisingly sore; I can only think this was because of grabbing on to trees on Sat during downhill slaloms or when fighting through vegetation.

I commented to Blair over breakfast that if the rogaine had been a 24 hour, then we'd still be out there...I don't think I could have coped with 24 hours of going through that stuff, which while it was definitely not the worst I've been in, made the Aust Champs at Capertee seem mostly quite open by comparison. Elevation gain yesterday was, according to my teammate, the same as running Point to Pinnacle will involve.

Anyway, spent a full Sunday chairing the OA level 3 controllers' workshop, which was in itself a sort of marathon and I was pretty wrecked by the end. It was great to have a turnout of over 20 but necessary to get through the compulsory curriculum on a tight timeline (partly because of people's flights), while at the same time allowing the opportunity for everyone to express their opinions/relate their own experiences. I never can predict which seemingly innocuous discussion point will accelerate into a heated debate!