Training Log Archive: jennycas

Blackwood-->Belair-->Brownhill Creek, from Perry Ave. Thought I was going ok, even up hills, but the first half was about 5 min slower than I would have liked, and the last half even more so once I ran out of energy. Legs didn't feel terrible but I just couldn't make them turn over any more efficiently. Seems I have only one pace these days: 24-hr rogaine-plod. No wonder I was such a poor investment for Blair in the 6-hour.

Anyway, this worked up an appetite for 3x pancakes and 2x coffee @Fern & Tyson's, before going out to Narrinyeri to put out controls for tomorrow. I'd forgotten how beautiful it is out there, and the golden wattle is already starting to flower, so I picked some. Now when I get annoyed about how the accommodation booking I made for Stanthorpe 2 weeks ago has fallen through "because the house is being used for a family reunion" I take a deep breath and smell the wattle.

Short one after work (3 laps of Mortlock Park alternating fast & slow sides, which my legs managed better than my lungs did) before going to see what remains of DAAS with Geoff & Julie. The show was, in approximately equal parts: hilarious, crass and sombre, which is about what I'd expected. Nice to see the way in which Paul McDermott works an audience though.

C • DAAS 14

Urgh, morning runs aren't good for me these days. This was an absolute plod, feeling like my mitochondria simply hadn't started firing yet. Over to Brownhill Creek, along behind Waite, back through Mitcham. The 20 min on singletrails through bushland is always nice but it hardly justifies the half hour each way on pavement, which my knees didn't like. I could tell I was lagging about 6 min slower than usual for this loop so tried to cut it a bit short at the end (still late for work). Hadn't thought it was particularly cold but my hands took a long time to function again afterwards.

Getting a bit worried about the amount of rogaine training I haven't done, given that the WRC's now only 2 weeks away...

C • Lack of training 3

South Rd --> Anzac --> Greenhill --> Goodwood --> Cross --> Winston --> Avenue Rd on a damp & drizzly night, but at least this loop is reasonably well lit and paved, making it possible to maintain pace. Thought I'd push harder at the end to see if I could get under 50. Now I may have set a benchmark a little too high for my current fitness!

We stayed at the caravan park in Emu Plains last night and I'd thought it wouldn't be so far to run to the Knapsack Bridge and up the hill from there towards Glenbrook, but in fact it took 25 min each way on pavement just to get to/from the bushland reserve and since it was only 2 degrees when I set out, I was thankful for my foresight in having brought a thermal top but regretting my lack of gloves. Can't remember when I last saw frost at home in Adelaide...anyway the bellbirds were bing-bonging in the sunshine as I made my way up to Elizabeth's lookout, across to Marge's lookout and down to Lennox Bridge, from where I ran down the one-way road of Mitchell's Pass. Pretty sure pedestrians aren't meant to do that - but then neither are mountain bikers meant to ride up it against the traffic as I saw someone doing!