Training Log Archive: jennycas

Up at dawn to go insect-collecting with Susanne & Eleanor somewhere out near Fogg Dam, social stuff/shopping/Parap markets during the day, then G & I went to Florence Falls & Buley Rockhole (he dipped the toes of his steel-caps, I got properly wet) before ending up at the Litchfield Tourist Park and entertaining Eleanor while Lachlan prepared for them to spend the night in a tent. G & I actually had a room to ourselves in the bunkhouse full of trail runners though.

We flew into Darwin at lunchtime (I was surprised to see clouds in the sky but apparently our arrival chased away the last vestiges of the Wet), spent the afternoon with Susanne & Eleanor and then I fitted in a short stagger past the museum and along Mindil Beach before dinner at the Trailer Boat Club with Terry Cleary and various interstate runners he was hosting. Run was rather painful, but fulfilled the goal of working up an appetite for dinner. And the sunset later was nice - up there it doesn't get dark until nearly 7pm!

To redwoods, up slippery singletrack, down Saddle Hill on the bitumen with Zara/Callum & Johnnn. Tired legs & brain tonight. Stayed too long chatting to Z afterwards and took forever to warm up when I got home. Not a problem I'll have after Sunday's run!

Up Randell's to the BP at Belair, down Gloucester, being careful on the slippery singletracks. It took a long time to get light and the sun never really came up although the rain didn't arrive until I was nearly done.

Sooo tired at work today but a trot around the river (weir & zoo footbridge) with the gang perked me up enough to stay awake at OSA SI workshop tonight. Foot pain seems to have settled so I am cautiously optimistic that it won't turn into plantar fasciitis - rather I think the tightness was tendinopathy from 24hrs of taped ankles in rogaine.

Plan was to go out to Narrinyeri with Frank and tape control sites after WA brunch but when we were all at the pub at Bridgewater watching the rain pelting down, that didn't seem like such a good idea. It turned into a fairly fine afternoon at home though, so since G&I were going to Steve & Maya's at Stirling East for dinner, I decided to run up there. 65 min to the top of Tilleys Hill Rd, up which I may possibly not have run since Christmas '09*, then about another hour up Charlick to Crafers and down/up through Stirling. Perfect timing as G arrived with warm clothes about 5 min before I did :) Hands were getting a bit cold by the end - somehow I don't think that will be a problem next Sunday!

*edit: can't actually find that I ran up Tiilleys Hill, only down, during Cradle Mtn training - seem to have gone up via either Waterfall Gully or Sheoak Rd at that time.