Training Log Archive: jennycas

Absolutely dead after 6 hours on my feet @schools' champs (only half as many kids entered as we had hoped for; we had over 300 in 2016. In the end we got twice as many volunteers - this event would not be possible without retirees - as we'd at one stage feared we were going to have available, so all went smoothly) but it was too nice an afternoon not to go for a run, especially as I've basically spent the last couple of weeks sitting on my bottom doing event stuff.

Knew that my legs wouldn't want to go up the hill but made them do it anyway because I wanted to check out a track I'd never been on before, at the far/upper end of Waite; the 'Sheoak Loop' contours around amongst quarries high above the freeway gulch and then comes back down the ridge over Brown Hill. Going up required lots of stretching/breath-catching stops but the views over other, now green, hills from the ridgeline was definitely worth it. As was all the effort which Tyson and I put into schools' champs - we're a bit disappointed that our controller wasn't particularly proactive, but oh well. It's possible though that Tyson went above & beyond the call of duty by getting the kids to sing Happy Birthday to me at the presentations!