Training Log Archive: Vaala

Set off to go riding up at Denniston again and a couple of minutes up the road the hail came roaring down on us along with a serious temperature drop. We retreated. Hail makes quite a loud sound when it hits the bikes.

Up to the Britannia Battery and back firstly in the sunshine then in the pouring rain (and maybe some sunshine again near the end). Checked out the battery and a scary cave lower down. I'm glad we were running this track and not attempting to bike it. Would have been a tough climb and a super slippery descent.

Wooden floors aren't very comfy!

Awesome ride from our place in Granity along the wild west coast on the road then up and over the gravel road to the top of the Charming Creek track then bumping all the way down the track. Bumpity bump over the railway sleepers. Beautiful scenery, lots of fascinating history and relics, cool riding and dark, scary tunnels! Plus the rain wasn't too bad until after we were already back and lounging on the couch! About 3 hours 30 riding but lots of stops to check out the scenery and read all the info stuff so we were out for over 4 hours. So worth it.

Round a couple of the shorter tracks on the Denniston plateau in very thick mist (you could only see about 10 metres ahead of you) then cruising around checking out the top of the incline and looking at the history. Would have been awesome if we could have, umm, been able to see! Feeling quite tentative on the bike today.

Wednesday night run with Michael while everyone else zoomed ahead and I couldn't make my legs go faster than snail pace. It was a very weird feeling. Didn't feel physically tired like I thought I would and I could jog all the way up the hill no problem (apart from when I tripped on a step early on, split my nail and completely freaked out about hitting my head…had to sit down for a moment) but my legs would only go a certain distance in front of each other (and it wasn't very far apart) so I felt like I'd been taken over by an alien trying to pass itself off as a human. We split off from everyone else early and headed back down the hill again because I was getting a headache. Had to walk some of the downhill. It felt so hard.

Yeah yeah, I knew it was probably not a good idea to be going for a run but I am so restless and frustrated and turning into some kind of monster.

Once we got out of the forest in the valley we walked the rest of the way down the road because I was over it.

A fairly gentle with Michael when he came home. I wanted to go for a run but I am restraining myself. I'll attempt running tomorrow instead. Felt okay apart from when we went down hill…that wasn't good on the head. Got tired at the end as well. These anti inflammatory tablets from the doctor are mighty good but you sure know when they are wearing off. Fingers crossed it all feels much better by Friday.

Was going to run home from work today but since my head wasn't doing so good work sent me to the doctor instead. He said to stay away from our car because it clearly doesn't like me. I had to agree.

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