Training Log Archive: T - runner

From the Brooklyn Windmill with Magnus, Sarah, and Jamie. Along Car parts extension to the road, past the apricot castle and the radar dome, then along the tops to the bunkers on the south coast, scrambled down the creek to Red Rocks, and back along the beach to Owhiro Bay to meet Lisa, who had lollies:) Cool run with awesome views, pretty steep and gravelly in places (as my grazed hand will attest), and a really nice day for it - way windier on the beach at the end than it was on the tops.

Out through Ohariu Valley to Makara, up the hill into Karori, and back along the main road. Quite a bit faster than last time I did this ride for some reason - possibly because my butt bones were so sore from not cycling for so long that I rode faster than usual...

30mins out into Ohariu Valley (19 from Gurkha Crs to the main intersection by the horse place), then turned around and came back. I always seem to forget how much I like cycling - first ride back since my wrist operation, and my plan for the wrist to harden up and enjoy it as much as the rest of me seemed to work, except on the bumpier bits of road, where it was just as painful as ever... Better than running today though, I think - leg still isn't as good as I'd like it to be, so I think it needed a rest.

Played for my usual team and lost 9-7 (I blame it on Lizzie not being there - my other friend who came to play for us got hit in the face about 4mins in and had to go off for the rest of the half...), then for some other team who needed another girl, and we won, despite the team being nowhere near as good as my usual team - I don't know if they are in a different grade, or if we will play them at some point and crush them. Parking was ridiculously difficult to find, and after driving round for 15mins I had to stalk some poor guy who was carrying his keys, wait for him to leave while blocking traffic, then steal his park and sprint to soccer - luckily the games were running slightly late.

Pretty much the reverse of Monday night, escept from Gurkha Crs, so: over to Khandallah Park, to the top of Clark St, along the flat track then up Mt Kaukau, started going down the ridgeline (the way I usually go up), turned off towards Johnsonville along the new (to me) track. I then turned off the way I though we came up, but it turned out it wasn't - I didn't pass the tunnel thing, and the track ended up dropping down to a creek, before emerging at the edge of the park that the other track comes down to anyway...shortcut with even more steps? Then back through the streets, cut through Onslow, and back along the road to Gurkha Crs. Cool run though, and I felt pretty good as well. Wee bit of a sore shin still though, so I will have to watch that.

From Lizzie's place along Simla Crs and up Burma Rd to Onslow College and cut through to end up on Truscott Ave and went up Mt Kaukau from there - I've never been that way before. Came back down the usual way and did some of the ,iddle track before going back to Lizzie's. I was a bit slow up the hill, but once I'd dropped a little bit I didn't get any further behind, so I don't know how that works... Right shin a bit sore after the fast bit on the roads at the start. With Lizzie, Sarah, Magnus, Lisa, Hamish, Jamie, Laura, John, and Tim.