Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

First day of Sprint Adelaide, a night event at the (defunct) Belair golf course - first time I've done a night event (other than on streets) for years. Main concern for me was how my body would function late in the day and coming off a plane. The answer for the first 15 minutes was ugly and had to walk up a couple of the hills, but then loosened up reasonably well and not too bad for the second half. Never really much beyond a shuffle though. Navigation reasonably good, although with the 30-second start intervals there were enough people around to show one into a lot of the controls (most of which were in the strips of forest between the fairways). Took a while to work out how the tees and greens were mapped.

Leith claimed my scalp, and Jenny almost did (from memory I think she's done it once, when I came horrendously unstuck at a post-OA Conference street-O a few years back).

Definitely glad I wasn't trying to run in Melbourne this morning. It hit 35 degrees in Melbourne (a temperature of some significance to tradies who get to knock off for the day when this happens) at 7.36am, beating the previous record of 8.26am set on 29 January 2009. I tried to do a long run on 29 January 2009. It didn't end well.

C • Jenny 4