Training Log Archive: jennycas

Sore legs this morning, partly from reversing back & forth between church & hall while carrying pews which had been put to one side for the reception (seriously, I could have logged this as weight training) but I wanted to explore where the Capital City Trail goes along the old train line past our motel, so I followed the bike path as far east as Edinburgh Gardens which I had also never explored, then back past Curtain Square (and the Albanian mosque) in time for breakfast with the newlyweds and their adorable 2-year old before G & I spent the afternoon at the zoo with Hania & Ella before flying home.

Event: Sprint Into Sprint Race 1 - University of Melbourne
 

Squeezed this in between a friend's wedding and reception at Brunswick :) and enjoyed myself even if I did take suboptimal routes on controls 1, 3, 12 and 17, losing about a minute all up, not that I was ever actually confused apart from straight out of the start where I missed the obvious shortcut!

Great fun, even if I couldn't stick around for the bonus sprint training and was at the event for a grand total of 34 minutes.

C • Very efficient 5

Our motel's halfway between the wedding venue and the uni so I had time for a quick shower before heading back to find that we had missed the bush dancing but not the cake-cutting.

Not sure how a flight to Melbourne tonight is going to go for my ears.

C • purple? 6

We weren't flying until 8pm and I wanted to stretch my legs first so ran around the longest course for the relays this Sunday (at which I unfortunately won't be present). Hard to know what a first-timer would make of reading the different levels on this map, because I know the campus so well that I automatically avoid the traps. Some good route choice options from Angus & Nick made me think twice before deciding though.

Explains why every day at work this week I have felt like I should be at home in bed. Even piked on Arrows' relays map-bagging night :(

An even better example of the arbitrarily-increased price of perceived-to-be-scarce resources, than bananas in cyclone season, is hire cars in Melbourne during the spring racing carnival - it will cost me 3 x more to hire a car on Caulfield Cup weekend than it will on 14/15th Oct :(

C • Cars 5

This was probably something of a baptism of fire for Manu, setting sprint training on a map where the track network has faded somewhat and the prickly acacia thickets have expanded (you could tell which people hadn't run @Tangari before, because they turned up in shorts while the rest of us were wearing chainmail*). 20 of us tonight and he managed to have a different course variation for every person! :)

With a mass start, and a deadline of approaching darkness, and lots of patches of impenetrable green, there was a fair bit of headless chickening and alternative route choices. Because it had rained quite a bit today, everything was slippery (I should have worn O shoes) so I was very slow & unco and in any case my legs are still refusing to function properly, but my brain had lots of fun - except when crawling for the 3rd time through a thicket in search of the control which even Simon couldn't find!

*this may or may not be true. But it's still more accurate than anything 'scientific' which comes out of little Tony's mouth.

Slow stiff jog, very fatigued in mind & body but the vague feverishness seems to have abated.