Training Log Archive: jennycas

Event: 2017 ACT Sprint Distance Champs; National League #3; Aust University Champi
 

From the assembly area at Canberra Girls' Grammar, we were walked most of the way up Red Hill to the top (would have been nice to keep running along the ridgeline) for a course which wasn't as much of a downhill slalom as I had feared and went more along the hillside looking for termite mounds and watercourse ends and was actually quite fun; I was sorry when it finished but glad to be done before it rained.

Two laps of a fun little school, struggling to read the detailed stairs and whether or not small gaps were passable, but mostly picking ok routes except for ending up on the level below the balcony on control 3 and hesitating mid-leg 14-15 when I finally worked out where the impassable walls were. Kind of ran out of my own legs about halfway through the second lap but am happy that I am running better against people of my vintage than I was 3 months ago.

Incidentally, I did think the A final should probably have had more than 6 finalists in senior women - top 4 from each heat could have worked better - and also more than one control which was different from the B final course!

C • Finalists 2

Final Course 4 - Splits

Heats Course 2A - Splits

Knees a bit unimpressed with even this. I'd really like to not come last in the B final tomorrow. Sadly, our speedy new Arrows' racing singlets which were intended for this weekend don't seem to have made it through Customs yet.

I'd hoped for a tempo run, but it was getting dark already and my gumby hamstring made this into a middle-aged plod. When I got across to Mitcham I stopped and stretched and waited for a magic carpet to come past, but it failed to materialise and so I had to run home also. Followed this up with Attack Of The Killer Foam Roller.

I think it's better to be the slowest person in the faster group, as I was tonight, rather than the other way around. Just occasionally though, I got one of the others on route choice :)

Sticky-humid going up to Deep View and in the valley toward 3rd Falls, but once we'd all, with a good effort by Sarah, made it up to Norton Summit Rd there was a bit of a breeze on the downhill run to Pretty Corner. View of the setting sun from the ridgeline made me think how next week will be the last Morialta run of the summer :(

C • Didn't realise it was still... 17

Along the creek valley up to and along the trainline (timing my period of being actually on the line nicely in between passing trains also being on the line) then back sort of via the ridgeline. It had rained this afternoon and so the tracks were nicely soft underfoot, and the post-rain smells refreshing, and myself rather sweaty but then legs were already oily from AOTKM - and not as tired as I'd thought they'd be, because we didn't rogaine very hard.

It was nearly midnight last night by the time I dropped my parents home (full of enthusiasm because they'd walked 8km and got 400 points), had a shower and made myself dinner (just like last year, the post-rogaine pizza vaporised as the hordes of starving 'seagulls' fell upon it literally the second a delivery arrived; SARA needs to order more when people are staying around for the AGM after the twilight rogaine, compared to when all the families go home straight after the minigaine) and so I didn't hurry to get up this morning and it was already fairly warm when I went out. Managed not to get sunburned though, and am definitely getting a bit quicker - at running also I think even though my results last weekend didn't bear this out.