Training Log Archive: jennycas

Redwoods run with Zara (and two dogs - Callum was so happy to have a human pack to run with), Fern, Lexie. Since it's absolutely impossible to have a conversation right now which is not about CV and its wide-ranging impacts, we found ourselves discussing contingency plans for if the supermarket shelves remain devoid of sanitary items, AKA Girl Stuff.

C • AKA Girl stuff 5

Sooo tired today (have been staying up too late scrolling through endless news feeds which all say the same thing, i.e. we're doomed, just in different ways) but was keen to orienteer while we still can, and this was a fun little course around the eco-village and golf course, and somehow we all kept getting a bit confused in places (particularly where there's an entire new hole - tee, fairway & green - unmapped on the golf course) and so I wasn't too far behind, then somehow I completely didn't see the last control on the map because it was getting dark, and so I wondered why I'd finished ahead of the others!

While I still can. Trip to the supermarket was rather depressing last night, too :(

C • supermarket 3

Just a flat one along the creek to loosen up legs before WA committee meeting, at which we decided not to cancel the Belair event just yet. L3 controllers' workshop's now been cancelled for this weekend but I haven't had time yet to cancel my Hobart (and other) flights.

Starting to daydream about what I could actually achieve around the house with a bit more time at home on weekends...

C • Good luck 23

Checking out some of Tyson's control sites for the Mar 29th event. Legs didn't want to work very well today so maybe yesterday's stroll around the gorge was tougher, or I'm unfitter, than I had thought. There was a repeat CB sighting!

Spent the afternoon on eventually convincing the rest of the ARC setters that we have no choice but to cancel the May event (hopefully postpone it until next year). That's another uncertainty deleted from the list.

C • It's quite nice to rock up ... 3

Fairly distracted swim, trying to decide how much risk is involved in 3-airports-and-2-flights each way to chair a L3 controllers' workshop in Hobart next weekend.

C • Probably not much 2

I don't do well with uncertainty, so my brain's hardly been functional the past few days due to worrying (doesn't help that anxiety levels are running high in the department), but the cancellation of Easter orienteering races was one step torwards certainty, I think.

And this was a lovely afternoon for exploring Sturt Gorge - with Geoff, as it turned out, because Fern was double-booked by a friend's 40th. I'd been looking forward to running with her, but strolling with G was fun too even if he didn't take his map out of his pocket. He'd never seen the impressive flood control dam, so that's where we headed first, then downriver to the waterfall (still just trickling) and added some controls on a side gully which was rather a steep uphill scramble but then gave us views out over ocean & city. I talked him into going as far downstream as Flinders Uni, which did mean that the last hour was back uphill, but by then his knees preferred to go up rather than down.

I thought we'd have time at the end for a 40-pointer which we probably should really have got first, but I didn't realise that G just doesn't hurry at all, much less jog to get in on time, and so we were 66 seconds late and lost 20 points. I was a bit annoyed at myself for having wasted the equivalent time in the uni on checking out a toilet which turned out to be locked, but really that didn't matter, it was just so nice not to think about CV for a few hours.

1) The directive came out from SA Health today that employees are not permitted to undertake any work-related interstate or overseas travel for the foreseeable future.

2) As soon as I walked in the door of the dispensary I was told to alcohol-gel my hands, and although I responded that I had just done so 2 minutes beforehand upon leaving the ward, that apparently wasn't good enough and it appears that the staff snitched on me to the boss for "putting them all at risk".

3) Over dinner Geoff & I discussed: a) cancelling our 2 week road trip to Orange because my parents will struggle to come & dog sit if mum won't let dad catch buses due to virus risk; b) what happens if his job folds, since a recession will surely affect the building industry; c) could killing us all with a virus* be nature's response to anthropogenic global warming?

* I don't seriously mean this, but I am surprised that no religious group has appeared to suggest that the virus is god's wrath being visited upon the sinners. More importantly, it will be interesting to see what impact the prolonged downturn in global activity has on temperatures etc.

C • Talk about jokes 5

C • God's wrath 6