Training Log: jennycas

Skipped Belair run last night because of meeting a friend for dinner at Glenelg (we walked around the marina and rode on the ferris wheel) but I was home by 10pm (unlike G who was doing light poles) and therefore able to drag myself out of bed in time for a swim this morning.

Finished off doing everything at work in advance of a few days in Darwin, with enough time to go for a run into/up out of the gorge and back down through the university bushland. Kangaroo tally tonight was 9, which is about 8 more than I had expected to see!

Blair's in town for a workshop and stayed with us last night so this morning I took him for a run through some suburbs he'd be less familiar with, although I don't normally go that way on a weekday because of multiple rail/road crossings. Legs felt better than on Sunday - but then again, I didn't make them do any more of a hill than Mt Glandore!

This was a fun little course from B&S with mass start groupings, and tapes had actually been put out although sometimes I got confused and thought I was on the wrong tree when I couldn't find the tape straight away. Ran out of legs halfway around while chasing Gemma, but at least they felt better than they had done at club relays here, even though it was quite humid tonight after so much rain yesterday - you could see where water had flowed through the arboretum.

At least I got out for a run, which was more than I'd had time for yesterday, and my hip which had bothered me after sitting in a meeting last night wasn't troublesome this end of the day (nor was it the primary reason for being awake during the night - that was caused by the thunderstorm which brought with it more rain than we'd had in the preceding two months, last Thursday's gratefully-received 20mm notwithstanding).

Western Belair loop then up to Lower (Bridget came with us this far) and Upper Waterfalls, struggling on the hills but it's lovely to look out over the wooded valley when you get up there, and the ground was softer underfoot after Thursday's rain. From the top of the park down the Besser blocks to the redwoods and back along Long Gully, much slower than Zara & Fern. Sometimes I feel as though my legs aren't lifting from the hips or knees at all and it's only my ankles flexing...