Training Log Archive: jennycas

Trotted over to Mortlock Park and alternated sides fast & slow for about 3 laps on a warm & sweaty morning. Not as soggy as Darwin though or as dog & I became yesterday when the bottom dropped out of the sky about 5 min after we headed out for a walk.

Attack of the Killer Masseuse
Apparently my calves needed needles.

Event: SA Sprint Championships - Waite
 

Steve Cooper set some good courses at Waite/CSIRO where we haven't run for a few years, and I really enjoyed this despite lactic quads due to the last uphill when riding to the uni (yeah, I'm very out of practice). Some good potential traps, especially to the first control. And some can-I-or-can't-I cross it garden beds meaning you had to be very careful in the control circle. Overshot 4 because I expected the hedge which the control was on to be bigger than a rose bush, and this accounted for the 10 sec which Liv was ahead of me but I presume she must have lost time elsewhere. We finished off through the Waite arboretum (which would have been closed, requiring course reconfiguration, if today was a total fire ban) where there are lots of visually distinctive trees but only the bottle trees are mapped.

Went a roundabout way, taking approx. half an hour to get to the event, then on the way back stopped to have coffee and a nice chat with Zara at Mitcham shops (told her how I got claustrophobically stuck inside a sports bra when trying it on yesterday) and it was almost 1pm, so rather warm, by the time I came home.

A bit annoyed to note that starts for the first sprint next Saturday are from nearly 11am, not 9am as was in the initial event bulletin, and in fact there's no need for those of us who are flying from Adelaide to be doing so on the Friday night after all.

C • Bra 4

C • 11am 3

Flinders Uni loop from Perry Ave after walking the dog and before work. Very tired to start off with, partly because I stayed up too late reading (Harry Potter!) last night but yesterday's anti-inflammatories had taken effect and once most of the climb was accomplished this became reasonably enjoyable, especially the downhill section through the uni (a bit surprised to encounter Ruhi out for a run but then realised Dante was presumably training with Flinders Uni athletics club) and the coolish breeze lasted through the suburbs. Not sure how I will go running for 3x as long in two weeks' time though.

Sad face :( this really didn't work out as a run, even though weather-wise it was the best morning I can expect for the next week (reminiscent of March 2008?). Even before I got to the bottom of Randell's Reserve, groin was horribly tight (possibly not ideal to come home last night and sit for 3 hours at my computer for OA board meeting) and I made an abortive attempt on the hill, then headed across to the bottom of the Linton bike path and tried again to go upwards but that hurt just as much, so I headed home through Panorama and downhills really hurt as well. As does walking around at work.

Across to Brownhill Creek & back with Meredith. I was a bit hot & thirsty but the time goes fast when you're gossiping :)

OK going up Deep View but then my legs just died; was feeling a bit lightheaded (and maybe should have had more than cereal for dinner last night). None of us were going as far as 3rd Falls today, so I just wombled back down at my leisure.