Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Third leg of the trifecta - the 3-days in Woodhill. That starts tomorrow, but we flew in at lunchtime today. Jenny's suggestion was to do some sprint training at the University of Auckland, which sounded like a good idea to me (even if it did subsequently give us the dubious pleasures of Auckland's peak-hour traffic). Ran the course from the NZ Sprint Championships this year, at a fairly easy pace (at least that's my excuse for doing it 9 minutes slower than Cameron de L'Isle on the day), and managed not to flatten any students. Hard to read gaps on a home-printed version of the map, and managed to miss one.

Going to/from the map from our parking spot on the far side of the Domain. Wasn't feeling that great at the start but ended up OK, and handled the climb back better than I thought I would. Probably just a slightly mixed-up day schedule - flew into Melbourne at 10.30pm last night and out again at 7.45 this morning. (I stayed at the airport, but did take advantage of my car being parked there to swap some work clothes and papers for my orienteering shoes).

The annual Ivanhoe Labor quiz night happened this evening. For the first time in many years, I wasn't MC'ing, but my questions were there in my absence. For a sample, the "True or Fake News" round - without googling or Wikipediaing, which of the following statements are true and which are fake news?

1. 1980s Victorian Liberal MP Roger Shipton is the godfather of Van Halen singer David Lee Roth
2. England has lost more matches in the World Cup football finals than any other country
3. The sun still never sets on the British Empire
4. There is a street in Victoria called James Hird Drive
5. There were no bank robberies in Victoria in 2017
6. There were no fatal commercial passenger jet crashes anywhere in the world in 2017
7. Swaziland recently announced that it would change its name to iSwaziland as part of a deal with Apple to set up manufacturing in the country
8. Pamela Anderson got her first media coverage at birth by being one of the first babies born in Canada on the day of Canada’s centenary of Confederation
9. Donald Trump’s first encounter with the law came in 1963 when he was cautioned by New Jersey police for running an illegal bookmaking operation at high school
10. There are now more cows than sheep in New Zealand