Training Log Archive: jennycas

Before AOTKM, at which I heard all about Girl-Guiding political intrigues, which was preferable to ghost stories...

Did the control picking course which Simon had set for the juniors last weekend, while my parents walked over to the old schoolhouse for a stickybeak. Didn't feel that I was very fluent through the forest but hopefully that's just because legs were hammered from massage. And also because there's a surprising amount of deadfall for pines which are only about 15yrs old - it's as though the trees rotted off at the base. Only one control site which I bypassed completely due to a truly dodgy bearing in low-vis pine forest...sometimes was able to imagine that I was actually running on Waitarere dunes instead.

We went looking for the Crawford meteorite crater on the way to Mt Pleasant bakery, but weren't quite certain of its centre because it's over 8km across. And then detoured via Lucky Hit - my beloved patch of pines is being clear-felled and I am so sad. Still, I guess it's had a good innings since first use was the interclub relays @1986 Aust Champs.

C • Favourite pines felled 3

Redwoods run with Zara (no Callum). Hands got rather cold but lungs appreciated the fresh air after being inside all day at work.

Up through the uni & Bellevue Heights, down through Eden Hills & Sheps. Tired legs & tight knees so this felt like hard work but the view of our fair city's lights from Shepherds Hill ridgeline made it worthwhile. Only one more week until I go on holidays!

To the weir & back, with doublings-back to the tail-enders at each bridge; same as 3 weeks ago but with fewer stragglers so total distance/time was less. Not complaining about that, because my brain in particular is exhausted this week. I still managed to be around Abi's pace although we leapfrogged each other a bit. Rather envious that she's going to NZ this weekend!

Being me, I'd brought along a map from Easter 2015 (the M21A course on the Saturday) with the intention of going for a run from the campsite after breakfast, which worked quite well except that I was incredibly slow getting in & out of all the creeks/erosions (also tentative/suspicious of X-Talons on damp mossy hillsides) and therefore rather hungry by the end. Definitely enjoyed being out orienteering all by myself although found it a bit hard after the full-on past few weeks to clear my head of everything else that's in it & focus on the map.

We had arranged to meet Brian Sambell at midday and look at his "shack" (one of half a dozen shanties & huts in a rather eclectic campsite area he has set up as a labour of love over the past 40 years) and although that particular spot won't have room for 300 rogainers, we should be ok to camp down towards Wonna Creek & have the HH where Easter 2015 parking was. And we learned quite a bit of local history (also a few other landowners' details) from Brian, but the best bit was when he mentioned a book which was written by the CWA in the 1960s about the history of the Terowie area.

Its title: Deceptive Lands. I think we just found the perfect name for our rogaine!