Training Log Archive: jennycas

Had to get my license photo renewed @Mitcham so parked at Brownhill Creek and ran up the front face of Brown Hill, puffing and sweaty in the only sunshine of the day, then down Yurrebilla where the singletrack's overgrown and grass nearly head-high in some places - nothing a good bushfire wouldn't fix.
*takes tongue out of cheek, washes mouth out with soap*

Afterwards, driving to Wallaringa meeting, I saw sooo many trick-or-treaters, some of whom looked like they should have been old enough to know better. There was even a dog in a pumpkin costume!

Event: West Sydney Summer Series #3 - Lake Parramatta plus ONSW Presentation Day
 

River loop in Penrith (approx 20 min from bridge to bridge which is the scenic part, and it also takes about 20 min to get to/from the river through both suburbs and paddocks) on a pleasant morning although I was pretty sweaty by the finish and glad it wasn't any warmer/more humid. Pity the jacarandas aren't fully out yet here but maybe we can stop in Glebe this afternoon.

6am flight to Sydney then I got Geoff to drop me at Coogee and I ran north to Bondi, following the coastal trail and looking at the sculptures and trying to dodge the humans. Lots of people out walking their dogs, and lots of weird objects to look at, but I reckon I liked the natural scenery even better...coffee afterwards wasn't bad either, at a tiny hole-in-the-wall cafe. Wouldn't want to be driving across town Bondi to Penrith too often though.

Staggered painfully across to Mitcham and back at the end of another exhausting working week. Thought about just slumping on the couch, but all the pre-rogaine carbo-loading which I then of course didn't work off, seems to have caught up with me...

15 of us turned up for the sprintervals which Stefano had set and so he divided us into 3 groups: boys, girls and 'parents'. I promptly traded my way out of the latter group, and even though this meant I was then last among the 'girls' (am I more than 3 x the age of the twins?), had great fun. There were some tricky route choices and control sites - I tried to plan one leg ahead to determine exit direction, but often didn't do a very good job of reading backwards from the end of the leg to find a good approach. And we all ballsed up the very first control by being confused about which start triangle we'd started from! Each sprinterval took me about 5 min then there was a tiny bonus one - around the building where Susanne used to work :)

Felt absolutely wooden in the warmup, not too bad when running (must have been the thrill of the chase) except up hills and then did an extended slog of a warmdown before going and sitting in 2018 nationals meeting for a couple of hours.

Probably should have done this yesterday, but I am having trouble getting myself to wake up in the mornings lately. Also was having trouble with my neck post-rogaine, so never got around to ponding last week either. And the week before, the mornings were too cold...

With Zara (& Callum of course) past the lake and up beyond the waterfalls to the top of the park where we admired the beautiful wildflowers, then down into the redwoods and back along Long Gully. I was very stiff & slow & the run was never not-painful but the company was good and Z didn't seem to mind too much not getting to do the time trial with the kiddies. Not saying I won't try it one day but I'd need at least a 20-minute warmup first.

Legs still a bit hammered from AOTKM yesterday. Also there's more than a hint of impending plantar fasciitis, which is disconcerting so early in the 'summer'.