Training Log Archive: jennycas

After a meeting in the city where we discussed (among other things) the fact that these days, if a hospital which outsources its chemo manufacturing unfortunately doesn't have the dose available when a patient turns up and so they need to be treated 2 days later than originally scheduled, it becomes front page news in the Advertiser! The irresponsible media reporting lately makes it an uneasy time to be a cancer pharmacist :(

The sun had set by the time I had driven through peak hour traffic to Mitcham so I headed up the steep front face of Brown Hill and paused at the no-longer-trig to catch my breath & admire the golden glow. Coming down the Yurrebilla singletrack by torchlight I was very slow and uncoordinated and tired, but the city lights below me were twinkling beautifully.

C • Know the feeling 1

Nth Adl loop with the juniors and 17 x 30 sec on/1 min off. Other people's feet twinkled past me while mine were like wood. Then went and sat in OSA meeting and was rather more strident than I'd intended to be, yet again. Sometimes think I should quit OSA council but then I'd not be in a position to complain about things having been agreed upon which I didn't know about (or endorse, I guess. Feel as though changes to OSA's event structure are happening too fast for me lately).

C • Endorsement 7

After sorting P cards and cross-checking them against the start list until after midnight, left home at 7am to collect parents and spend the day at Woodhouse for schools' champs. On balance, the event was a success (certainly the weather helped) and AK's courses well received but it's cost Wallaringa more than the $8/student entry fee (we are not allowed to charge more than this) in actual expenses and that doesn't even begin to take into account the hundreds of person-hours which all of the organisers** and helpers - to whom I'm eternally grateful- put in, for only 320 kids; hardly any of them in secondary classes. We used to get over 800*!

I wasn't on the start but despite the start team having a detailed system, it still seems to have been a bit messy, partly because one really organised school printed off the very earliest version of the start list and didn't realise that updated versions had involved a subsequent redraw of all start times, and partly because one really disorganised school didn't read the event directions properly and their bus dropped them off in the wrong place so they had to walk through the middle of the map area and 40 kids got there late.

Also there was the teacher who said to me as I was organising the presentations "B class is the harder one, right? That's why I entered all my novice kids in A class"

Anyway, after I dropped my parents, who were very helpful in assisting me to mop/sweep out the toilets and assembly shed after everyone had gone, home I then drove to Seacliff and ran along the Marion Coastal Trail with all the stairs, to Hallett Cove CP, up past the Sugarloaf and Amphitheatre formations and back along The Cove Rd (not quicker, but less stairs) as the sun was setting. Went as far north as the pub to make it up to 90 min.

*admittedly that was nearly 30 years ago...
**this is the fourth time since 2001 that I have either organised or set the schools' champs as it's been allocated to my club; when it comes around again in 5 years' time I think I am going to secretly arrange to be out of the country!

C • Good job with event! althou... 7

Expected to be pretty buggered after yesterday, but while very slow (3 min/km slower than Bridget) was a bit more fluent through the forest than I sometimes am. Dropped by Lucky Hit beforehand and found my compass :) and afterwards went to Woodhouse to put out controls and help set up the assembly area for tomorrow.

Geoff & I put in an 8-hour day at Perry Ave tidying the garden for impending tenants and filling an entire skip with green waste. While he was on the shed roof chopping down ivy trees, I was Tarzan-ing the passionfruit vine (never grow passionfruit. The bastard child rootstock vine takes over the entire garden and doesn't produce any fruit!) Anyway, maybe not loggable but definitely exercise!

Schools' champs stuff is all-encompassing this week :(

It's getting a bit ridiculous accommodating last minute requests for late entries and changes from A to B class, and then there was the teacher who suddenly realised that she'd entered half her school's girls as boys!

Slow plod over to Mitcham & back; I'm no good in the mornings these days. Felt as though I weighed 100kg and was moving as slowly as a snail. Did chuckle at the thought that at least a mollusc of that magnitude would NEVER get stepped on!

C • or cooked 3

C • Feel 100kg 2