Training Log Archive: jennycas

Didn't stay up too late watching the JWOC middle because it got a bit demoralising after 50% of the Aussie guys had efficiently and inadvertently omitted visiting fundamental controls - excruciating to watch on the GPS tracking (I found myself yelling "Ethan, don't follow the fenceline, go down to 8" at the computer screen) - but obviously far worse for them, to have run an otherwise good race, albeit suspiciously fast, and only found the omission out at the end!

C • Fundamental controls 2

3hr minigaine at Woodville with Zara & Fern, both of whom I know to be faster runners than me and so I was stressing about this quite a bit during the week. Route planning was interesting because of the options whereby getting all the controls of a certain points value earned a bonus of the same points value, and this lured me into suggesting that we try for all the 20s, 30s, 40s & 50s because it seemed like a fun thing to do and anyway we didn't really have time to also measure the distance for an alternate route with higher-point controls but further apart/more remote from HH. As it was: time spent waiting for trains, at traffic lights and going around where a mapped through road didn't exist, also time spent guzzling at water fountains and soaking our hats, chewed up about 20 min and so we didn't have enough time to get all the 50s, plus my legs went into go-slow mode at about the same time as Fern finally stopped feeling overheated (and she put on a spurt equal to Rita Maramarosi on the way to the second-last control on the third leg of tonight's JWOC relay and so the Hungarian women were second) and unfortunately we ended up having to finish by going pretty much straight past the first control we had gone to nearly 3 hours ago, so that was a bit of a redundancy - TBH, I never should have suggested doing that control first up, but it was part of the plan to get all the 40s. Oh well, lesson learned, and Zara was pretty patient despite her kelpie genetics :)

Dead legs but it was too nice a springtime evening not to get out for a run, and the nasturtiums are still in bloom along the creek, reminding me of my grandma's garden.

Western Belair loop with one part of the group and then I didn't feel like going up the hill (have no energy this week, definitely am overdue on tracking down some more iron tonic) so went via the creek track to Long Gully and was glad of having pre-emptively worn old shoes because it's super-muddy along there.

Still a few Hallowe'en decorations around the neighbourhood - eeeenormous hairy black spiders seem to have been a real thing this year.

C • how eeeeeeeenormous? 4

There didn't seem to me and V to be any point in going across town to Morialta when nobody from the northern suburbs was coming and in any case the Burleys live @Stirling, so it was myself, Vanessa, Patsy and Lucy who climbed the slippery steps of Waite Glen, received an icy shower at the top and all wished we'd worn gloves, saw blue sky ahead so decided to go along the Brown Hill ridgeline before the next rain came through, and made it back down & around to the glowing pink greenhouses again in comparative dryness. Car showed 8 degrees while driving home and when I arrived I hastily threw on about 4 layers of thermal fleeces (seriously, it's colder now than 90% of winter was) in order to join a Zoom meeting in which I was so engrossed that I didn't hear the tree blow down next door or the flashing lights arrive.

Remember to always keep your bathrooms clean, boys and girls, in case the nice State Emergency Service ladies urgently need to borrow your toilet!

C • Colder than winter 1

Outbound airport-reading-purchase: Myf Warhurst's autobiography (Time Of My Life)
Inbound airport-reading-purchase: Vika & Linda Bull's autobiography (No Bull)
Both are great reads as chronicles of Australian music/TV history and about genuinely likeable people so they're entirely worth the exorbitant airport price-gouging :)

Fairly direct trundle via the Broadwalk to the DNA tower (didn't run its stairs but made sure to walk up/down alternate helices) then sand tracks through the lovely bushland to the Zamia Cafe playground and on the way back to Derby Rd I did a lap of Lake Jualbup. It's exciting to see red-tailed black cockatoos right in the city!

Afterwards, walked the rail trail with Richard from John Forrest NP where I'd never been, and I was excited by seeing lots of unfamiliar wildflowers, to the Parkerville Tavern (AKA Parky Pub) where Nicole met us and we lunched with Paul Dowling (AKA Juffy) before going back to admire both his handmade strawbale house (AKA JuffyHaus) and his enormous canine (AKA Timber the Great Dane). Airport dropoff was conveniently on the others' way home - I have very much appreciated their hospitality and it's been a great weekend of catching up with people even if I did have to sing for my supper, in a manner of speaking.

C • Singing 7

C • JFNP 1

C • DNA Tower 1