Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Run from Richmond before a massage session, starting up through Toorak and coming back along Gardiners Creek (always nice to be on the springy surface there, even if it is the scene for the Commuter Olympics time-trial at this time of day). Started sleepy - sleep has been in short supply in recent days - and was struggling badly through the first half-hour, but gradually built into it, and by the last 20 minutes was feeling as good as I've felt in the last two or three weeks, and definitely energetic enough for a final short loop up near Dimmey's to squeeze the last bit out of the available time. (You'd probably want to be careful as to what you bought in Dimmey's closing-down-sale, given that the reason they are going out of business is their inability to pay a fine of something like $3 million for selling unsafe products).

Hit the road to Canberra this afternoon. I'm making a bit of a habit of doing this trip to a backdrop of sporting epics (and hoping that the ABC Melbourne signal will hold out because Canberra wasn't broadcasting it): 18 months ago it was Tom Hawkins kicking the winning goal after the siren against Hawthorn, this time it was Djokovic-Wawrinka (although I made it in time to see the last few games on TV). Perhaps the most memorable, though, was a trip back (with Bruce, and I think others but I've forgotten who) through Gippsland from an ACT Championships at Badja in 2003; it was Davis Cup semi-final weekend and we picked up the signal with Lleyton Hewitt two sets and a break down against Roger Federer. Lleyton doing what Lleyton does best, he managed to come back to win the third set in a tie-break, and then win the last two.

And for what it's worth, the currently smoking parts of the Murraguldrie fire don't seem to be particularly close to Burngoogee.