Training Log Archive: jennycas

Finally feeling a bit more lively (really, 3 colds in as many months?) although still fairly tired - and slightly worried about managing a longer run with Zara, but it turned out ok in the winter sunshine and I think I even saw some golden wattle blossoms. Up through Echo Tunnel to the top of the park then out along the trainline to Station Rd and back via the southern park boundary.

Not sure what possessed me to get up early & go for a run on the shortest day of the year, but actually it wasn't quite as cold & dark as I'd expected. Unfortunately, by unusually not hurting when I woke up, my legs lulled me into a false sense of security about how far they could actually go and so this turned into a struggleplod although I did follow Brownhill Creek downstream from Mitcham to Millswood before heading home.

C • Crazy... 6

John & I thought we'd better go to Nth Adl to supervise the kiddies in the absence of B&S but no-one else turned up so we just ran down to the weir & back at what was probably a casual pace for him but a bit harder for me. At least my legs felt better than yesterday, but I wasn't sorry for a short one due to OSA meeting.

We got home about 10pm last night (all the in-law stuff went ok) and I was fairly tired today so indulged in (extra) coffee & chocolate this afternoon, then thought I'd better go for a run - up Randell's to the BP at Belair, back down Gloucester. 37 min each way, which is pretty shameful, but it was dark (would have been lovely an hour earlier), rough underfoot in places and my calves were ridiculously tight despite regular stretching stops. I guess it's all rogaine training anyway...

'Twas a beautifully sunny morning on the plains and not too cold up at Glenbrook, but running down to the Causeway from the gates of the National Park meant descending into the Mist o' the Mountains. Did the Campfire Creek - Red Hands Cave loop section in reverse (the opposite way around to usual, not literally jogging backwards) because I thought it might be slippery coming down the many little steps, so instead I then had to come down the few big ones which are hard for me to run up anyway - not sure if this way around was any more efficient because I still spent a lot of time watching my feet. Also, this run is nicest in summer when the wildflowers are out. When I got back to the Causeway a bunch of women in Serious Ultra Running Gear were standing around, and I didn't want any of them to catch me on the 1km uphill climb (still smarting from having continually been overtaken yesterday by a guy who was power walking, and in long-sleeved shirt & hiking pants) so I tried a bit harder on the ascent.

G & I brunched at one of the many cafes which have sprung up in Glenbrook, noting that the hiking/outdoor shop which morphed into a MTBing place a few years ago now has a new incarnation as a Serious Ultra Running Gear store, which I suspect caters to a female target audience given the number of women I saw on foot in the national park today - and yet I didn't see any cyclists, unlike a couple of years ago.