Training Log Archive: jennycas

On the sort of morning which makes one glad to be living in Adelaide in autumn (we kind of missed out on April last year, because of being in NZ). Everything outside the pool is looking pretty dry though :(

C • April 10

Fairly uneventful except for the elderly driver turning across traffic into Mitcham Shopping Centre, who didn't see me coming down the road - until I was about 1m away! I don't like scaring little old ladies, but I do like having good brakes.

Nice morning for a run across to Mitcham, Heywood Park and the Orphanage, but I've been struggling all this week with stiff neck & jaw, manifesting as toothache although I'm sure it's muscle tension. Last day of being 2 people at work...until next month :(

Sunset exploration of Bellevue Heights while others were still sitting in the carpark exit queue. A few wrong turns - it turns out I don't know the suburb as well as I did 20 years ago - and one inadvertent descent of an MTB singletrack which resulted in unnecessarily steep ascent of a fire trail; can tell I haven't done any hills lately.

Who doesn't love running when it's 26 degrees, and basically so is the dewpoint? Realised that I hadn't been near the beach all weekend, so trotted over past the museum to Mindil along to Myilly point, back up through the botanic gardens, marvelling at how many trees are down and yet how little damage there is to infrastructure. I had been wondering whether it was in fact a particularly wet season, meaning the trees were susceptible to windblow, but before I'd had the opportunity to look this up, various Darwinite friends have already confirmed it to me.

Got back in time to help out with the amazing treasure hunt which Sus had organised for E and a dozen of her little friends at the local road safety centre, and then to have a quick iced coffee with SLEH at the Cool Spot before G & I headed to the airport. Can't believe it's 8 months already since we were last heading home from Darwin :(

C • 26/26 4

Obtained a copy of the scatter course from a wet season event around Stuart Park (one control right across the road from 18 Armidale St, but never got the opportunity to run it because we ended up walking up to Nightcliff markets - Susanne, Eleanor, pram for E, E's pram for teddies - and later in the day went for a couple of swims in various people's pools. Brave Eleanor saved me from the 'crocodile'!

In any case, I was feeling a bit under the weather because it turns out that the incubation period for childhood viruses to which I have no immunity is approximately 36 hours. Seemed hot during the day because of the sun shining directly on the house now that there are fewer trees (SLEH lost power for 5 days after the cyclone because the mango tree fell on the powerline) but cooled down a little after the thunderstorm.