Training Log Archive: jennycas

This was going to be hills, but I had nothing today and it turned into a plod around the foothills of Panorama, stopping to rest/stretch every few min. There's a nice little picnic area at the end of one of the valleys below the train line and I sat there a while enjoying the silence.

C • Enjoying the silence 14

Suburban O-pants-delivery run, including a lap of Forestville and some streets I'd never been down before.

1) 3.5km course where we each put out "our" first control and then continued around the rest of the course which was more in the thinned pines than it was among the rocks. For the first 15 min my arches were excruciating as they always are when first put into O shoes, and didn't enjoy going over logs much, and I had to stop & stretch a couple of times. 29 min.

2) 1: 5000 sprint-style course zigzagging among the rocks, where I just held off Adrian (2km, 14:24) but I was behind the young-people's pack from the start.

3) I wanted to run a bit more in the forest since I'd gone to the trouble of taping my ankles, so suggested to Zara that we do the 2.4ish km course I'd drawn up, by alternating map-memory legs. 19:30

Plus collecting a couple of controls.

The pool water's warmed up enough over the past few days that the 26-degree air seemed cool when I got out!

By the time I got to the far end of the valley, sweat was dripping off my nose due to the humidity, but this did mean I created for myself a bit of a breeze on the way back.

C • Dripping? 2

Attack of the Killer Masseuse
Yep, running 11 days in a row has definitely been enough.

So, this is basically the housing-trust-units area of West Lakes Shore, enlarged and detailed by Stefano. Alyce set the courses and made them as interesting as possible in an area which is a *little* grungy. I jogged around the long course to turn the units on and it was bloody hot. Only had to rescue one control which had been sabotaged (so I've taken a minute off my time) and was glad, when I returned, of the esky full of ice blocks which I'd brought to give out to finishers who'd made it to the event (difficulty being added by a roadworks detour negating the O signs, very near to the assembly area, and the OSA website being down so people couldn't look up the location, but we still got over 50 competitors).

To the far end of Long Gully, up & over the hill, back via redwoods, with Zara & Callum. Leisurely pace, stopping to sample blackberries, the fact that it was only low 30s and a dip in the Sodens' pool afterwards all made this a much pleasanter experience than walking around Adelaide Uni with Simon to check control sites when it was 42 degrees yesterday evening.

Ran over to Mitcham & back, trying to do alternate blocks faster/slower. This wasn't entirely successful, because my hip flexors wouldn't (wooden't), and so I had to stop & stretch a number of times - but the principle was sound, and the temperature still quite pleasant.