Training Log Archive: jennycas

By the time we flew into Sydney/waited ages for our luggage/paid $700(!) for 4 days' car hire/got to the Rydges @Camperdown it was after 10:30 last night and I was hungrumpy but we walked over to Newtown & found pasta at 11pm(!) and so this morning I had the energy for a trot down through Glebe to Blackwattle Bay foreshore, back up via Orphan School Creek. After hotel buffet breakfast G & I walked along Parramatta Rd to the markets and Gleebooks, which is kind of a destination/tradition when we're in Sydney.

Fairylands loop with Tracy, including detour to drop tomorrow's controls @Paula's, so then she came with us - it was quite a conversational run!

In a hurry because of needing to finish packing for Sydney tonight, but couldn't manage to go any faster (incidentally, number of strokes per lap always correlates pretty well to number of min elapsed for 1km). Might be because of all the chocolate which it's been impossible to avoid ingesting around the hospital - everyone knows that chocolate actually has the density of lead, right?

With Zara/Callum after a false start where it quickly became evident that kelpie pups can jump fences...poor Roo-girl ended up with some nasty scratches from hauling herself over the barbed wire to chase after us, and had to be carried home & shut indoors :(

Warm windy morning, trying to rain. Staggered across to Mitcham, then followed the creek to Heywood Park, Orphanage Park, back along the train line. Lightning didn't come any closer than 3km (as estimated by time from flash until thunder) until I was walking the dog afterwards, whereupon we both got absolutely soaked. Don't think it's going to make 35 today?

C • Not making 35 5

Casual exploration of the pine forest & 'gorge' tracks - discovered the MTB Singletrail To Nowhere, and took it twice.

Not sure why I felt so wrecked today both mentally and physically, despite a fairly quiet weekend? Was tempted to take a nap when I got home from work, but fended off the Sandman by consuming junk food, then went out for a ride which was made harder by the fierce headwind, I mean gentle gully breeze from the east.

Around the suburbs to the west of us, in search of Christmas lights. Failed to find the truly garish house I'd spotted a couple of years ago but saw enough other luridness to make up for it. Legs a bit hammered from Killer Massage yesterday and walking up/down Mt Lofty with a friend this morning (in complete fog; there was no view from the top and no city to be seen anywhere) but felt better for the run. Also today we salvaged & cooked up all the apricots which hadn't been spoiled by either rain or birds and now the house has that comforting stewed-apricot smell which always reminds me of my grandma's kitchen.