Training Log Archive: grilla

Soggy Lane Cove Park loop with Paula. Slower than when we did this in August, but the conditions were not great. Knee deep water a couple of times and some nice cold waterfalls to run through on the north side of the river too.

C • Lane Cove NP 2

Ice skating with Aoife. Lots of core and leg strength work to stay upright with 30kg hanging off one arm. I managed to stay on my feet, Aoife fell a few time but had fun. Can't remember when I last went ice skating, maybe when I was 10... I think the Monday night roller blade disco action from a few years ago helped enormously.

Athletics was cancelled today so Aoife and I went up to UTS to do some of our own. We did discus, 2 x 50m (or half the soccer pitch), 100m (bit of a fail), 100m hurdles (with pretend hurdles), 100m bunny hopping, skipping, bum kicks and high knees. Final session was a skipping (rope) competition. I can only skip forwards and she can only skip backwards so we had quite a good laugh at each other.

The new field is pretty OK, sad to lose the grass but great to have a nice dry astro pitch to muck around on on a wet day.

Saturday afternoon catch-up with Paula and Tracy. Ran up the river and back the road, fair bit faster and more comfortable than a couple of weeks ago.

Event: Sydney Summer Series #7 - Beacon Hill
 

Summer Series at Beacon Hill. If it hadn't been a location with a good reputation I would have been tempted to skip this one. Very pleased I went to keep up the training momentum, I am making progress (I hope) and ut was worth the visit. Finished 5 seconds inside the time limit. A few time losses but that seemed quite typical. I could have gotten 10 extra points if I'd read the map properly but would have been a bit late.