Training Log Archive: jennycas

Original plan for this weekend was another rogaine-setting trip, but I'm just not coping very well with work-life balance lately and so that has been postponed until October. Therefore, with an unexpected free day, Geoff & I decided to go to the Royal Adelaide Show once I'd finished the morning's housework.

I convinced him that we could spend an entire 15 minutes riding our bikes there - and lock them up behind Sports Association House which is now opposite the showground - rather than spending $30 for parking. Of course, I wanted to visit all the sites of the Yellow Brick Road showbag (the only one we were allowed to do as kids, because you collect bits of healthy food from produce stalls along the way) in their correct order, which frustrated him a little :)

I think both of us liked the dairy cattle sheds best; I grew up around my grandfather's cows. It always fascinates me how whole families basically set up house in there for the entire Show week! We don't do rides, apart from going on the ferris wheel as it got dark, which gives you a great view out over the brightly-lit amusement alleyways (and I told him all about the Wiener Riesenrad in the Prater amusement park) but then it was starting to rain, so we watched the fireworks while we were riding home just before things got properly wet, and sadly we lost the illuminated balloon which had been bobbing about tied to G's backpack.

C • Sounds lovely 6

To Karka & back with Z, both very weary :(
Justified wearing a 2nd layer because my hands could still function afterwards for once.

To make room for a pharmacists' dinner meeting (4th evening meeting in a row this week and I am absolutely wrecked). Legs still hammered from AOKTM this morning but at least my toe is less neuropathic now. Still not convinced there isn't a stress fracture lurking somewhere in my foot though.

Also I am annoyed at just how far forward on the block it looks like next door's owners are going to build their new house and that their garage will form part of the boundary fence in our front garden. Aren't they supposed to consult us on these things...or at least the council should notify us?

C • Properties 2

16 x 100m as a relay, triaged into triads (I was with Steve & Kate). Exhausted, just couldn't seem to catch my breath tonight...

Not ideal for hamstring to go & sit in 2020 programme committee meeting for a couple of hours afterwards. At least I got smart after shivering through last Tuesday's meeting (that place is frigid in winter, sweltering in summer), and wore no less than 4 layers this time!

No idea when I would have last paid to run an orienteering event in the national park, but it's at least 5 years. Wasn't sure about running today because I'm so tired, but had already paid event entry online. And was glad to find the course actually 1km shorter than originally advertised! Some good route choice legs from Vincent (Bridget's contouring-track route was definitely better to 2; we both decided to go wide right past the waterfall on 4 rather than braving the blackberries in the valley; as I said to Rob Tucker when observing his scratched & bloody arms & legs as a result of the latter route: you only try going that way once!). Was starting to run out of my own legs well before the course had finished though. Don't know where I can manage to get some more fitness from?