Training Log Archive: jennycas

Sweaty bridge to bridge river loop in Penrith, this time from the motel in Emu Plains (which has rather uncomfortable beds and in fact yesterday I woke up so stiff & sore that I didn't run in the morning and then in the afternoon it was 39 degrees so I didn't run then either). G & I actually managed to kidnap his parents from the nursing home & take them out for lunch and then we still had time on the way to the airport to explore Balmain a bit and discovered Ballast Point Park - I guess it's too small for a sprint map?

Flew home with enough time to go & check control sites at Flinders Uni for Friday night, which doesn't look like being as hot as originally forecast, so that's good.

C • Ballast Pt 2

From the hotel at Camperdown, around some nearby parks sussing out the local cafes for afterwards (we can now recommend Acre Eatery on the old bowling club, which has become a community garden) then over through Harold Park and Glebe to the Blackwattle Bay waterfront, where lots of people were out walking, dogwalking, jogging, dogjogging and the rowers were rowing. Knees weren't very happy today - maybe from the flight last night - so I didn't go over into Pyrmont this time even though I'd brought the O map.

Later in the drizzly day we caught up with Tracy & family at her parents' place near Manly and she took me snorkelling among the seaweed - I saw a fish this _________ big!

C • Traveller 3

Weary plod to the redwoods, trailing Zara & Fern by miles, but it was a lovely cool evening with the damp smell of after-rain and I perked up a bit on the way back along the creek.

4 short courses around the school, oval, and bushland tracks in between them. Evalin presumed that some of us might know the area too well and therefore put purple uncrossable lines in strategic places on the map. Certainly made me think - I only got caught out once (the uncrossable lines were different for different courses; after a while I started to expect to see barriers on the ground also) and was glad I went along even though I'd been practically crosseyed with tiredness after finally getting rid of the on call phone.

Just a plod along the creek, because I didn't have energy to drive across to Morialta and my knees didn't feel like going up or down hills. Stopped more than once to consume a random sample of early season blackberries...one, two, three, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty :)

C • Mmmmm.... 1