Training Log Archive: Mounty

Annika asked to come for a run, so plan was to do a short trot with her then continue on for a run myself. However she was still full of beans after a couple of k on the Killarney trail, so decided to tack on a bit more and ended up doing the full killarney trail loop and dropped plans for my own run. She was having a well good time on the rocky bits, and declared it much more fun than running on the road - attagirl.

Interesting discovery of the day was an old newspaper clipping my mum found while cleaning up about her grandfather. I knew that he had been a famous drover, but I did not know that he was a friend of Ned Kelly.

Impressive story - her grandmother was one of 10 kids. She was left in charge of all her siblings at age 15 when the mother died - which she managed while simultaneously running a pub in the WA gold fields. We're all soft these days.

Saturday morning sailing paddle. 15-20kt SSE coming up the harbour with a 1-1.5m ESE short period swell rolling in the heads. Scwheet. Up to Middle Head, then a downwind run back to manly. Quite technical with the short swell.

Then 10 * 30sec on/off back upwind - hard work! And a run back to the beach. Pumped arms by the end.

When I left a big dive boat had tied up at the skiff club, and 3 ambulances had pulled up out front. When I got back the ambos had been replaced by police on the boat. Bit worrying.

Morning paddle with Katrin from Clontarf after offloading the kids at school. Popped her 'out the heads' cherry, heading across to South Head and poking around towards the gap. Swell from a couple of directions, and plenty of bounce off the cliffs - fun.

Paddled thru a couple of sizeable bluebottle schools. Reminded first of Finding Nemo, and then a rather amusing paddle with NSW Stinger a couple of years ago.

Ran to CBD to collect the commuter, in for its first service after a valiant couple of years diligent duty. Collected the bike and rode back to Crowie, then off the watch the Tahs at the Longie with the OANSW secretary.

The frame was the same as the bike I'd dropped off, but not much else. Man, it felt nice riding back.

Worked at home for a while, then up-tempo run from Castle Cove to Nth Sydney via the middle cove bush trails. Starting to feel some bounce in the legs, which makes running much more fun.

A very large tree - (2ft diameter and 10+m high) has fallen along the length of a narrow section of the track down below Herbal High School. Wouldn't have wanted to be there when it came down.

Have a race on the calendar for the first time in a while. Look out for a dangerous team at the next AROC.

C • Herbal High 3

Solid run back to Castle Cove. Close on 4m/k's to Middle Cove, then slowed down on the bush track section 'cause it got dark. Dark enough that I would have struggled to keep running if I didn't know that section. Finished with a hill sprint on the CCove hill. Hill sprints with a backpack feels a bit weird.

Felt pretty good.

Kenyan commute from Flat Rock. Mainly because the hot water heater at home is out of action, and running to work meant avoiding a cold shower.