Training Log Archive: jennycas

Hopefully the latest dawn I'll experience on a run this year.

C • Latest dawn 4

Actually got this done in enough time to beat the Wednesday morning uni traffic logjam.

Seized the last opportunity to do this after work until...October. Woodsmoke in the valley made it feel autumnal - will be weird to spend an Easter where it definitely doesn't.

C • Autumn woodsmoke is one of ... 3

Think we were all a bit buggered tonight.

Wasn't desperate to go orienteering after spending a couple of hours on party-cleanup this morning, but figured that WMOC training has to start some time. Not sure what I thought of the course - there seemed to be a lot of short legs and so it wasn't always possible to avoid the thicker stuff. There were some nice bits although these mostly came at the end by which time I had run out of legs; I'm ashamed of how much I ended up walking. A couple of good route choice options, and some neat rock features as control sites, and some dumb control-circle mistakes by me (turns out I got beaten by most of the M16s. some of whom are only 14...).

Still dark when I started this, which was squeezed in before AOTKM and was a precursor to a very full day of preparing for hosting Spudnight, which doubled as Manu's farewell party and at which the highlight was definitely:

Haha, this was hilarious! And so simple...teams of 2, first runner has to down a beer* before starting the course (which was from ours to and around the park/playground in the block behind us, then back to and around the house) down another beer after finishing, then hand map (made by Manu, of course) over to teammate who does the same! I clearly haven't had enough practice at skolling drinks, because I was last out of the driveway (even after the people drinking non-alcoholic beverages). It was astounding how quickly Simon managed to tip his beer straight down his throat, but the B&S team ended up being beaten by Manu and Liv, partly because Bridget's second beer wasn't as cooperative as she had hoped.

This hilarity was followed by the consumption of vast quantities of nachos and baked potatoes, and everyone really seemed to enjoy themselves despite being a bit sad about Manu's impending departure.

*or similar

It's been a pretty full-on week (and 2 more to go) being 2 people at work, so I really needed to stretch my legs - which I did fairly carefully - once I finally escaped @7pm.

In other news, I finally finished reading Gone Girl, which was a Christmas present (no, I hadn't seen the movie). And my first thought was "What an awful book!". Oh, definitely it's suspenseful and draws you in with more and more plot twists so that you have to keep reading, but the characters are basically unlikeable, and so manipulative that I couldn't find anyone to feel sorry for - the main protagonists hate each other so much that they are prepared to destroy each other. Think I'll go re-read The Time Traveller's Wife as an antidote. Now that's a love story for the ages...or maybe ageless.