Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

After the first part of the morning was devoted to watching Marc Leishman spending more time exploring the Augusta region's forests than I did on my course at the 2008 Georgia Navigator Cup, I started this one with a stiff back (although higher up than usual) and didn't have a lot of confidence that this run was going to last for long. (I also discovered that, although Grange Road is now open again, it has a friendly man in a high-vis vest who will stop the traffic for you). 10 minutes in, I was on the verge of giving it away for the day; spotted a Melbourne Uni colleague (who I knew lived in the area but not on that street) and stopped to talk briefly. This stop turned out to remove the back stiffness almost immediately. There were still enough niggles in other places to make me not want to commit to the 90 minutes I'd originally hoped for, but this ended up as a reasonable salvage operation, at its best coming back along the track to the stepping stones on the east side of Darebin Creek (I thought the bridge would be closed but they haven't started work yet). A warmish day, and lost more fluid than I thought I would (as shown later in the day).

Made my first visit to Essendon Airport for many years this afternoon (picking up my parents who came home via Flinders Island). Noted for future reference for central NSW events: there is an airline that flies Melbourne-Dubbo (and vice versa) on Friday and Sunday evenings.