Training Log Archive: jennycas

Urgh, morning runs aren't good for me these days. This was an absolute plod, feeling like my mitochondria simply hadn't started firing yet. Over to Brownhill Creek, along behind Waite, back through Mitcham. The 20 min on singletrails through bushland is always nice but it hardly justifies the half hour each way on pavement, which my knees didn't like. I could tell I was lagging about 6 min slower than usual for this loop so tried to cut it a bit short at the end (still late for work). Hadn't thought it was particularly cold but my hands took a long time to function again afterwards.

Getting a bit worried about the amount of rogaine training I haven't done, given that the WRC's now only 2 weeks away...

C • Lack of training 3

South Rd --> Anzac --> Greenhill --> Goodwood --> Cross --> Winston --> Avenue Rd on a damp & drizzly night, but at least this loop is reasonably well lit and paved, making it possible to maintain pace. Thought I'd push harder at the end to see if I could get under 50. Now I may have set a benchmark a little too high for my current fitness!

We stayed at the caravan park in Emu Plains last night and I'd thought it wouldn't be so far to run to the Knapsack Bridge and up the hill from there towards Glenbrook, but in fact it took 25 min each way on pavement just to get to/from the bushland reserve and since it was only 2 degrees when I set out, I was thankful for my foresight in having brought a thermal top but regretting my lack of gloves. Can't remember when I last saw frost at home in Adelaide...anyway the bellbirds were bing-bonging in the sunshine as I made my way up to Elizabeth's lookout, across to Marge's lookout and down to Lennox Bridge, from where I ran down the one-way road of Mitchell's Pass. Pretty sure pedestrians aren't meant to do that - but then neither are mountain bikers meant to ride up it against the traffic as I saw someone doing!

We flew into Sydney last night and while I slept pretty badly at the YHA in Glebe, its proximity to the harbour meant a scenic run in glorious winter sunshine around Blackwattle Bay Park where everyone was out running or walking their dogs, across Anzac Bridge (funny how I don't enjoy heights but do like bridges), then a lap of Pyrmont - which seemed almost deserted apart from the queue stretching around the block from the polling booth. The polling booth which we found later in the day, for interstate voters only (in Penrith) was the least obvious I've ever encountered, with no political signage whatsoever, and so quiet that G & I were able to swap opinions on who our 'top 6' were or weren't as we filled out the ballot papers!

Over to Mitcham then followed Brownhill Creek through the suburbs to Goodwood Rd which I crossed at the train overpass. Some nice mansions on this route but I always think of it as the 'murder run' because it passes by the sites of two such acts (that I'm aware of).

C • Murder runs 2