Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Spent a bit of time today looking at the extreme fire weather conditions of the weekend and previous vaguely comparable events in March. One which came up for the NSW South Coast was 2 March 1985. By coincidence, that day I was in Tathra - staying, I think, in the caravan park that got burnt out yesterday. (On that weekend, most of the fire action was around and east of Canberra). It was also - yes, I've got the records going back that far - the first time I ran further than my age, although definitely not the last....(Must have gone out early - even at 13, I didn't fancy the heat that much).

Back to Fitzroy, after negotiating the route to get there, a more challenging task than usual with the trains and the Grange Road level crossing out (Station Street wasn't as cactus as I thought it might be, but bottlenecks were starting to appear elsewhere, fortunately all in directions I wasn't going in). A decent session once I was actually in the water. Others said the water was cool but I didn't really notice anything unusual.

I was hoping to get the physio all-clear tonight to start running again but she wants me to wait a few more days. Off to Canberra in the morning until Thursday.

Best line I heard today was someone who noted that South Australia has voted for a Marshall who doesn't like batteries. (Reminds me of Gough Whitlam's line about ultra-social conservative union leader Joe de Bruyn - "a Dutchman who hates dykes").