Training Log Archive: jennycas

Event: Sprint Adelaide (Single day entry only) race 2 - Heathfield High School - A
 

Managed not to mug any little old ladies or further aggravate my hamstring.

Fun course from Olly, which started out around the lake in Woorabinda then crossed the train line and did a couple of laps of the school. Measured as straight line I believe so actual distance quite a bit longer (we really need a consistent approach on this). I walked anything cross-country, and jogged fairly cautiously on the rest, and am still not sure whether I made the best route choices in a number of places, but it doesn't really matter because it was a lovely area to be running through, even if I did have to roll under a locked gate!

Event: Sprint Adelaide race 1 - Belair Golf Course - Night
 

Adrian's golf course night O which was the first race of Sprint Adelaide. Perfect conditions for it tonight and I enjoyed running around (mostly by myself, having got there later than I would have liked because Blair's plane was delayed) although I could either read the map - just; my night vision is woeful - or watch where I was putting my feet. The one time I tried both simultaneously, I stepped in a ditch and jarred my hamstring nastily. Only real mistake was on 15 where I mistook the looming outline of a sand trap rim for the looming outline of a tee platform and went north when I should have gone south, so lost about 40 sec. Great fun and I am very glad that I suggested a night race for this weekend.

Tweaked hamstring just by turning over in bed, so thought better of running today, a decision made easier by the fact that it reached 46 degrees outside - although I feel that I cheated on living through Adelaide's hottest day on record given that for most of it I was shivering inside the air-conditioned hospital.

Fun little control-picking sprintervals on Olly's brand-new map of Park 25. He'd previously said that this activity would be fairly "chilled" which can only be an oxymoron when the official temperature is 40 degrees at the BOM weather station less than 500m away!

Inertia, temperature & sightings of melting koalas only took us as far as First Falls, which was enough for my knee/ITB anyway - hope it's happier on the weekend.

After becoming a bit dessicated spending a couple hours checking all my control sites for Sunday's Flinders Uni event (am struggling to make the knockout sprint's final race short enough) I still had to drop the borrowed kiddy car seat off at F&T's, so went for a run from there since it was cooler than on the plains - and dropped in on the Uppills to talk Sprint Series/Sprint Adelaide, so it was quite dark by the time I got back to my car on Turners Ave, but the full moon was amazing as I drove down the hill to home.

After dropping the Darwinites to the airport. 'Twas lovely to see them but not much down time while hosting, and a lot of ferrying back & forth to parents' (I don't think next weekend's house guest will be *quite* so exhausting). This morning Tyson & I minded all 4 kidlets at the Bridgewater playground while Sus & Fern did Bridgie run!