Training Log Archive: jennycas

Tired legs were intending to just stick to the creek valley but then I decided to head up the hill in order to admire the rising full moon.

Event: Moon Rocks
 

This time, having Ben Cazzolato chasing me down made me run harder, and of course he passed me half way around, but with completely treeless rocky hillsides, I could see him in the distance on & off until the end. Mind you, for a while there I was trying & failing to run away from Rob Tucker, who is admittedly fairly fast for M70, but the fact that Steve Cooper somehow did 46 min for this course tells you how unfit I really am- I don't think I can blame being a bit stiff & sore from yesterday. Spent an hour collecting controls afterwards but otherwise didn't really have to do anything helpful despite this being a Wallaringa event, because everyone else was so organised!

Getting a bit frustrated by some people's belief that it's against the government's rules for us to provide water on course in these viral times and therefore we will be breaking the law if I have water controls at state champs. Even today there were quite a few comments from people feeling thirsty by the end of their course in brilliant sunshine, and it will be warmer by Sept, plus the state champs courses will be tougher, so I consider that it would be unconscionable for me not to have water controls at Narrinyeri...but I do need to work out a way of making the provision of water acceptably hygienic (e.g. sealed individual-use water bottles, or competitors leaving their own drinks at registration to be taken to a remote location) which might in fact require a variation to OSA's currently-approved (by Office Of Recreation, Sport & Racing) COVID-Safe plan. And I don't accept some people's insistence that everyone should carry their own water, because then we're imposing the purchase cost of the carrying device upon competitors.

C • Water 3

Met the rangers out at Narrinyeri about 10am to discuss parking etc, then spent over 5 hours wandering around in the sunshine taping control sites north of the road and checking out some alternate features/potential route choice options. Sometimes I'd get such a sense of deja vu amongst the native pines, and realised that I was thinking of Kangaroo Crossing...

Anyway, decided to stop in at the top of Belair for a short run on the way home and timed it so that I was at the upper waterfall just as the setting sun hung goldenly above its valley, with views all the way out to the ocean.

C • Food... 3

I'm a bit sad - BOM's Kent Town weather station has finally been decommissioned :(

Very tired today but I'd arranged to meet Fern for what I presumed would be a casual jog, but then the Kathmandu runners decided to go the same way as us and were slowly gaining and I was getting very out of breath trying to stay ahead of them, so in the end I convinced Fern to duck down a side track where I stopped and puffed and panted while the headlamps streamed past.

Quick one with Zara, (almost) before it got dark enough for torches. I showed her the 1960s boat-shaped-house in lower Eden Hills!

We did 10 min tempo, then about 3 min rest, then 2 x 5 min at what was said to be 5km pace but I felt this was more like '5 min pace' - when I thought it must surely be 5 min already I looked at my watch and it was only on 3 min...so for the second one I found myself thinking "if I go faster this will be over quicker". As my spouse says: for someone reasonably smart, I can also be quite stupid at times :)

C • Faster 1

Along the river.