Training Log Archive: jennycas

Perfect morning for it, with Buttercup bread smells. Afterwards spent the entire day helping at the 3hr minigiaine, not even leaving the school campus. Approx 130 teams in the end, and not too many no-shows. Lots of families, lots of fancy dress team outfits. 100kg of watermelon (thanks Zara) and $1800 worth of pizza. Amy & Emma did a great job with the course and the most complicated part of the whole event was dealing with all the novelty/bonus points.

C • Great event! I was so glad ... 2

Escape, ha ha, hee hee! From work, that is; there was a lot more I easily could have stayed back to do but not doing it wasn't going to compromise patient safety, and thus there was enough daylight remaining to comfortably plod around the Eden-Hills Flinders Uni loop, even with an extended detour through the university caused by my usual detour (due to the plaza building works) now also being blocked.

Think I'm going to struggle a bit with Point to Pinnacle because it's clearly not just *any* half marathon, not when it takes Hanny 1hr 40 to win. So I'm guessing that my time may be fairly similar to what I've previously run for 27km at Two Bays although whether it correlates to a good day (2:40) or a bad day (3hrs) may depend partly on how well I recover from getting up in time for a 6am flight next Sat, and also on the training I kind of haven't got around to doing properly yet...

Bought about 5kg of lolly snakes tonight to place at rogaine controls. Felt as though I was betraying my principles by doing this because my mum does not believe in giving sugar to children. My dad doesn't believe in Halloween, and neither do I, which made me doubly uncomfortable last Sat night when walking the dog, to see all the families out trick or treating with their kids imaginatively dressed and clutching baskets of treats. I came home and said to G "if anyone knocks on the door, I'm giving them fruit!"

Just then there was a knock at the door and a voice tentatively called out "trick or treat" but by the time I'd decided whether to respond, they'd moved on...I happened to read on someone else's AP log (from the US) that they'd given out something like 600 pieces of candy and 150 toys on Sat night. That's just ridiculous!

Wow, head is so full of rogaine stuff this week, and it's only a 3 hour (for which I'm not even a setter).There was a fair quantity of water flowing in Brownhill Creek, but it wouldn't have been swimmable, or even surf-on-a-lilo-able; we probably got half an inch last night, just at the time when I was vaguely contemplating going for a run, so I didn't.

C • Spoken like a farmer's granddaughter 9

Colonel Light Gardens, at a slow plod, before sorting and bagging maps for 130 teams. The purple-flowering jacarandas, after-rain humidity and smell of jasmine all made me think of being in Sydney. Pity we have to wait until December for the next trip (but Hobart is now not much more than a week away - can begin my Christmas shopping at Salamanca markets unless I'm still frantically finishing off conference presentations).

Just ordered pizza for nearly 400 people for Sat night...

C • Yum!!!!!! Can't wait :) 6

One of the things I particularly liked about yesterday's run was the opportunity to be by myself (have been out socialising on 4 evenings during the past week, which is going to make it look, in the compulsory ABS household expenditure survey which we can't avoid doing, as though all G & I do is pay other people to cook us food - plus last weekend I didn't really get a break from people either) but I stiffened up a lot through knees & groin afterwards and probably wouldn't have gone for a decent run on my own today, so group run it was, then. Heysen Spur trail to Verdun across past The Cedars to Hahndorf, under the freeway & back up Silver Rd. I finished off past the waterhole on Cox Creek which had more water flowing than at Morialta, although that's not saying much.

C • Misleading ABS surveys 10