Training Log Archive: jennycas

I wasn't sure, from Ruhi's description of the courses having been set as middle-distance style because of fire regrowth & felling, whether this meant that they would be shorter to avoid the crap or because it's all really crappy...Leg of Mutton was always the nicest section of the South Para map, being closest to the reservoir and with more open forest with actual rocks, so I remembered it quite fondly from about 15 years ago.

Today only about 15% of it was as nice as I remembered, but the rest was still fun in an "I like low-vis green navigation because it brings everyone else back to my level" kind of way and I didn't mind fighting through the young wattles because they're still much less painful than yakka. And once I got into Irena's mapping style, wasn't too far off on most of the rock features, plus I kept seeing John & AK and this kept me running harder than I otherwise would have. Very glad though that the last thing I did before starting was to eat a banana - and afterwards I required TWO sausages from the junior squad BBQ.

edit: I've just dug out my map from the 2000 SA champs on South Para where the 10.8km course took me 149 min, and as I recall, when I finished and the course planner bounced up to me cheerfully asking how I'd liked it, I may have sworn at him...

C • South Para 2000 3

Finally feeling a bit more lively (really, 3 colds in as many months?) although still fairly tired - and slightly worried about managing a longer run with Zara, but it turned out ok in the winter sunshine and I think I even saw some golden wattle blossoms. Up through Echo Tunnel to the top of the park then out along the trainline to Station Rd and back via the southern park boundary.

Not sure what possessed me to get up early & go for a run on the shortest day of the year, but actually it wasn't quite as cold & dark as I'd expected. Unfortunately, by unusually not hurting when I woke up, my legs lulled me into a false sense of security about how far they could actually go and so this turned into a struggleplod although I did follow Brownhill Creek downstream from Mitcham to Millswood before heading home.

C • Crazy... 6

John & I thought we'd better go to Nth Adl to supervise the kiddies in the absence of B&S but no-one else turned up so we just ran down to the weir & back at what was probably a casual pace for him but a bit harder for me. At least my legs felt better than yesterday, but I wasn't sorry for a short one due to OSA meeting.

We got home about 10pm last night (all the in-law stuff went ok) and I was fairly tired today so indulged in (extra) coffee & chocolate this afternoon, then thought I'd better go for a run - up Randell's to the BP at Belair, back down Gloucester. 37 min each way, which is pretty shameful, but it was dark (would have been lovely an hour earlier), rough underfoot in places and my calves were ridiculously tight despite regular stretching stops. I guess it's all rogaine training anyway...