Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

All Nations intervals for the first time in a few weeks. Haven't been sleeping that well this week and seemed to be awake most of the time from 4am today (would be nice to swap this with tomorrow when I've got a 5am meeting), but managed to get this session under my belt OK - if a bit lacking in pace.

Also managed to get a nice dinner with my parents in before we all retreat into our shells for the next few weeks.

C • parental get together 1

Warm-up and down. As with Monday, settled my back down with a minute or so of stretching about 5 minutes in (normally traffic stops serve this function but I got a clear run across the two main roads in each direction today).

Morning swim at Northcote, not quite as slow as last time. Shoulder starting to get a bit sore in the later stages, but if it's a swimming injury it won't be tested for a while: I had a feeling it would probably be the last swim for some time as we slid back towards square one, and so it proved.

At least there's a bit more clarity this time round as to what is and isn't possible in the exercise department (last time a lot depended on whether you encountered a cop and if so, what sort of mood they were in), but it's still going to be a frustrating time ahead - especially as I suspect the risk aversion this time round is going to be extreme, so it could drag on a lot longer than six weeks.

Monday morning Pilates, with a full complement for the first time in a few months. This meant doing things in a different order to usual, which in turn meant it felt like things were a bit out of kilter (since the first couple of exercises normally get me loosened up). Not bad once going though.

MFR Monday night. Very similar story to last week - fell off the back after a few minutes and had to stop for a bit to do some stretching/mobilising, but OK once I did so (on a lot of runs from home a traffic stop fills this function; perhaps I need to start this session a few minutes early?). Even managed to make a better fist of the (small) climbs up from the river than I have in recent weeks (and ticked off the one remaining bit of nominally-Fairfield road south of the railway line).

Feeling very flat today - back was not too bad after an iffy first 15 minutes, but never really had much energy. Not the day to push boundaries but at least got something vaguely respectable on the board. Headed down to the north side of the Yarra for the first time in a long time, discovering (a) that there are some nice pockets there (b) it's muddy and (c) you can't get much further east than the bridge because part of the bank has collapsed (although you can get up into the south end of the new development, which is more advanced than I thought it was - there even appear to be some people living there). Cleared most of the remaining streets in the southern half of Fairfield (including the end of Jayne's).

Not as much of it was running as I'd hoped, but this is still the longest week I've done this year.

C • How long? 3

Currently looking at the 2001 Easter results, and noted that the results list someone called Geoff Lawson as the winner in M45. (At least Geoff Lawson is almost the right age).

Good to be back - the Bendigo event at Birds Reef was my first proper event since March. Heading out there revealed that there was considerable rust in the mining areas, both physical and technical - got most of the controls more or less OK except for 11, where I dropped a minute or so (it was unhelpful seeing my father looking around where the control wasn't), but never felt especially confident while doing so. (The printing of the brown seemed quite faint?). Couldn't run up hills much, either. Still, it's a starting point, and if I can get more solid weeks of training and a few more events under my belt, hopefully the trajectory will be upwards?

C • Printing 11

Got out early (while the weather was still half-reasonable) for an out-and-back on the Koonung path, mostly fairly easy although there are a couple of short sharp climbs. Definitely not as many people out at 8 on a winter morning compared to, say 3 on a sunny autumn afternoon.

Got out at lunchtime. Not especially convincing but not uncomfortable enough to stop, and perhaps a bit better in the last 10 minutes or so. Once again did some street-collecting, this time in the southern part of the suburb (have almost everything south of Heidelberg Road done now). The light blue dashed lines of the map are important in some contexts these days, although Fairfield and Alphington share a postcode.

C • Our end of Cain Avenue is F... 4