Training Log Archive: jennycas

Surprised at how exhausted I was feeling tonight (this cold's still hanging around) but it was too nice an evening not to run; managed to make it as far as redwoods & return with conversational encouragement from Zara and lots of stops to rest +/- eat blackberries.

C • Blogging 2

Finally non-spluttery enough to do this.

Quick trot around the park because tonight's deadline was a pharmacists' dinner meeting.

C • pharmacists' dinner 6

Nice evening for an ascent of Deep View then around to the top of First Falls and back down, encountering the others who had gone up via Pretty Corner on the south side instead. Deadline was OSA council meeting, at which there was wine and cheese (apparently our delayed Christmas party)!

Wow, accommodation in downtown San Francisco is expensive! Even if some of the hostels do accept payment in Bitcoin...

C • Yep. 17

I'd decided on Friday to drop down to the 6km course, but there was no way I was going to miss the famed/fabled Lockwood Granite. This was such a fun race - head south 2km through lovely open spur-gully (everyone went past me on the first erosion gully crossing and up the big hill, but I caught up with some of them again at the end of the leg) to a tiny patch of granite on the southern spur, where we had a map flip to the 1:2 000 section, then 3 6-800m butterfly loops through a pivot control with people going all over the place, then back to 1:10 000 for the northward journey home. At the end of the butterflies I could see Jenny Bourne's yellow Sprint Into Spring jersey ahead of me, and I chased it down over the next 3 controls, but then she took a better (i.e. track) route than me through the green regrowth and then by the time I'd managed to get across the big erosion Tony and Adrian had come past me and then my legs absolutely died in the last couple of controls and so they finished 2+ min ahead of me.

But hey, at least I got around pretty cleanly, and it was so much fun, thanks to Jim's one-man-band organisation (and Neil's mapping)! If I hadn't been sick all week, I think I'd have managed the 10km ok (had been looking forward to that) but even so, this is what orienteering's all about! Well not quite, it also involves administrative stuff like subsequently spending 4 hours in an OA Board Workshop, but I had procured an amazing burger from a street market just beforehand so this kept me quiet for a bit :)

Event: BendiGo ToDay
 

Flew into Melb last night (plane ended up doing 2 laps of Bendigo in a holding pattern so I got a good look at the school which is tonight's sprint venue, but couldn't see Lockwood Range). 'Twas a nice morning for a run down Darebin Creek bushland trail to the Yarra, and even coming back to Fairfield past the Chandler Highway roadworks wasn't too bad. Legs felt good for first 20 min then I kept having to consciously extend my stride to avoid jarring the hamstring, which doesn't like it when I cough.

Fun little map of a fancy school in Bendigo, mapped at 1:3 000 which was perfect for my aging eyes. Temperature 32 degrees was too much for my ailing lungs and legs, but I persevered, and enjoyed myself despite wanting to sit down and rest at every control. Did try a bit harder through the middle section when the heavy-breathing stalker running up behind me through the bushes turned out to be Blair :)

Since I hadn't had the energy to remove ankle tape last night, decided to go back and do the rest of the sprintervals on my way to work this morning (yes, I do have access to a shower!). It's a worry when I can't even break 10 min/km on Sheps though.