Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

A good, honest morning's work, out through Watsonia and Montmorency and coming back through Westerfolds and along the Yarra. Threatened to turn into something better than that at times in the middle but never quite did. A bit slower than it felt, although darkness may have contributed to that - with a 6.00 start almost half of this is at night now (especially when there's fog about as there was this morning). Didn't really tire at any stage. A few niggles surfaced at times (right Achilles, left hip) but were gone by the end; my calves were also a bit tighter than usual.

An unusual sight in the big city was a wombat - on the footbridge out of Westerfolds on the Yarra Trail. It scurried away pretty quickly when it noticed me; I don't know if wombats are aggressive if cornered or not (and didn't particularly want to put it to the test).

Noticed the 'upset' win of Dmitri Tsetskov in the Euro Champs long distance. I first came across him when he dominated the APOC carnival in Kazakhstan in 2004 (some would argue that with the opposition being Ecmo, Glenn, myself and a few Kazakhs there wasn't an awful lot to dominate) and was a little surprised that we hadn't seen more of him since then - although Russian orienteering selection politics can be as inscrutable as real Russian politics.