Training Log Archive: jennycas

The group headed out on the Heysen Trail spur to Hahndorf, and I had thought we were all going to Mylor from there, but after crossing the Onkaparinga Lauren & I were the only ones who turned left into Taminga Grove. There was a great disparity in our paces but she did come back for me as I struggled up the hill from Cox Creek (legs didn't want to play, maybe because I have ben stressing about whether or not we actually have an event for next Sat, not that I can do anything directly about it) and after doing the full length of Mylor Conservation Park we got a drink at the school in Mylor and then decided to take the Bandicoot trail meandering through to Aldgate cemetery, by which time we were both really glad that the last 2km into Bridgewater is emphatically downhill.

C • NOL 10

Wallaringa's Saturday afternoon event, on a new map drawn & set by Andrew Mogridge. Unfortunately very few people turned up, but the numbers were almost doubled by a birthday party group with 3 adults and 11 kids who divided into 3 subgroups and went around the shortest course with every sign of enjoyment, clutching their healthy snacks and fruit-box-drinks.

I found the hills on the longest course surprisingly tough (not sure why my legs were tired) but the southern section along the creek in Michael Perry Reserve, where I'd never been before, was really nice with huge palm trees and Bunya & Monterey pines. For some reason I had in my mind that 41:55 was the time to beat, so I tried hard, and although I didn't quite manage it, that time turned out to have been from someone on the medium course anyway.

Past the lake to the Lower Waterfall, across to and down Jubilee Drive. Surprisingly legs didn't hurt at all and I was moving ok tonight, but it did seem weird that Lauren wasn't running any faster than me - and then I realised that she didn't have a headlamp of her own. Mind you, mine was bright enough to stun a beautiful grey tawny frogmouth which was sitting on the ground on the track in front of me and took a long time to move off!

C • So.. 1

April's much nicer (including weather) this year than it was last year.

Spent the last couple of days trying to get my painful knees & calves to loosen up after being hammered by wearing O shoes on Sunday, but it was a nice afternoon so after a meeting at FMC I took a route which I regularly did when I lived on Sturt Rd in 1997/8: up through the pine forest past the uni into Bellevue Heights, along the train line to Karinya/Eden Hills fire station and back down through Shepherds Hill (had thought it was too late in the day for MTBs so took one of the many new singletracks, but did have to step aside for a bike to whizz by me). Would have been even nicer 10 minutes earlier, to see the golden sunset from the ridgeline.