Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

A bit of a taster for Saturday at Binna Burra - a run on one of the walking tracks at Eungella National Park, from Broken River back towards Eungella. This is at the top of a high escarpment and was mostly single-track through rainforest, never too steep - a lovely place to run (especially on a crisp sunny morning). Unsurprisingly it was a very enjoyable session.

I don't think the Garmin coped too well with a winding track in mountainous rainforest - there's no way I was doing 6.5 minutes/km. I've assumed 5.4, the same as on a track of similar roughness last Saturday.

With less time pressure now I then did some more exploring around the area and the Finch Hatton Gorge. Heading down to Rockhampton this afternoon.

C • Rockhampton 3

Those who follow my training closely will know that I would normally do a second session on this day. I was a little later leaving the Finch Hatton area than I'd planned on and therefore found myself presented with the following options:

(a) do something en route and drive the last hour to Rockhampton in the dark (I didn't expect to miss any interesting scenery, but suspected, correctly, that it was roo country).
(b) do something in the dark once I got to Rockhampton.
(c) shift the session to Friday and do it in Noosa.

I chose option (c), and I suspect most of you would have too. I was particularly pleased to have done so because had I chosen option (a) I would have done it in St. Lawrence, which turned out to be a landscape of decrepit desolation the likes of which I haven't seen this side of the Lower Ninth in New Orleans. The town is clearly several decades past its best and only about one block in five seems to be occupied.

Also got to hear some familiar voices on the ABC during the day - one of my work colleagues (talking about climate change) and my 1984 school captain (now a Griffith Uni law professor, talking about the adequacy, or lack thereof, of whistleblowing protection laws).