Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Sprint Canberra stage 2 at the University of Canberra. Running much better than yesterday, but ended up with a similar result after a big mistake on #12 - the classic University of Canberra misadventure of making a mess of going from the lower level to the upper and ending up on a ramp to nowhere. Hip now down to minor nuisance level on the warm-up, and barely noticeable whilst running.

Started in front of a challenging bunch. I knew I had little chance of defending 1 minute on Andy Hill or 2 minutes on Bruce, but was hoping to be able to hold off Martin Dent (6 minutes). Might have just about managed it without the mistake.

Stage 3, bush sprint at Bruce Ridge. Continuing to get back to some level of running normality - although still a bit iffy uphill (in a fitness sense, not an injury one) and got to be in a decent race as well. Mostly fairly clean, except for an unnecessarily conservative route on #6 (avoiding an area with green and an erosion gully which as it turned out didn't need avoiding) and dropped 30 seconds or so. Ella Cuthbert caught me a minute there and we were dicing the rest of the way; she's significantly faster in open country but not in the thicker stuff (and had a couple of wobbles too). Also caught Ted towards the end; I thought he was coming back at me hard from the last control to the finish when I heard someone coming up rapidly behind me, but it was Simon.

We were starting next to the ACT Athletics Championships, where various 100-metre rounds were under way; I wonder if Ben Johnson still holds the ACT all-comers record? Like a lot of ACT all-comers records, it dates from the 1985 World Cup, certainly the highest-level athletics meeting ever held in Canberra, and possibly the most doped one in the history of international athletics. Marita Koch's 400-metre world record set there (which Cathy Freeman never got within a second of) still stands, and probably will for a long time to come (unless it's struck out).