Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

A different location - from Essendon because I was picking my parents up from out that way this evening. I thought this might be better than recent Thursday runs because it wasn't coming off a Wednesday night race, but in fact it wasn't too different - although reasonably happy with the way I handled some of the steeper hills in the second half. Ended up going around Essendon Airport and out into Keilor East before dropping down to the river. Cut it a few minutes shorter than planned in the name of making the 8.24 train - I needn't have bothered because it was 10 minutes late. (This is something of which Essendon has a proud history - in the early 80s the Public Transport Users Association caused a certain amount of political embarrassment by getting the 8.08 from Essendon listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most frequently late train).

Transport issues of another sort were the subject of much work conversation today because quite a few of my colleagues are going to a conference in Cairns next week, and Jetstar cancelled the 4pm Sunday flight and rebooked them all on the 6am flight without bothering to tell them about it (sound familiar?). Not sure if one of them was terribly impressed when I suggested he should look on the bright side because (a) 6am Sunday is really 7am because of the end of daylight saving and (b) his 18-month-old son will probably have woken him up at 3am anyway.

It hasn't always been the most comfortable month of training, but it has been my biggest month since August 2009. Hopefully it will do me some good.