Training Log Archive: Clara

State Series, Glenluce.

Was a bit worried my map wasn't going to hold out in the rain, but luckily it never got any heavier than a drizzle.

Just an ordinary run. The longish leg getting to 2 seemed to take a long time. Saw a lot of Michael Loughnan (he caught me about 2 mins at 2, and finished just in front of me after we both made some mistakes).

I was pretty clean except from 9. Tried to keep out of the rocks but then messed up the end and followed Ian Dodd up on to the wrong spur. Powered up the hill to 10 though and made up some ground.

From home up Edgars Creek to the Darebin tip. Had to work fairly hard on the way there to make the 3:30pm closing (made it with 6 mins to spare).

So much work has been done along the creek to cut out a boxthorn forest - I now no longer have to fear getting stabbed (by the vegetation at least; locals are a different story).

Dropped off some old batteries and light globes we've been stockpiling. Worker said he'd had people drop things off on bikes before, but I think I was the first runner.

Thursday night running club.

An 'easy' run tonight (but faster than I would have otherwise done) as everyone seemed to have either run the Wonderland race or be preparing for Surf Coast Century.

Quite light to start - didn't need torches for a while :)

Apparently the weekend took more out of me than I realised - I was riding home when a very excited colleague overtook me and exclaimed with a fist pump that it was the first time ever she's passed me :)