Training Log Archive: Mess Engineer

Route 2B 1L 3E 1J 2E 3B 1H 3H 1D 1C 2D 1A 1B 3A 1N 1M 1E 2C 2A 1G

44:59 and 7.5 km for 20 Controls / 33 Points (1 Point x 11, 2 Point x 5, 3 Point x 4).

Very happy to confirm I was early. You never know whether there was a few second time delay between my iPhone mapmyrun timer and punching the start but I knew it was very close!

Happy with route, time and result. This must be the third or fourth time run on the Merewether map and I have never ever decided to take on the hills in the south west corner of the map!

Ian Dempsey and I were tag teaming from 1D to 1M and he opened up a long lead. He elected to head down and back for 3C whilst I thought I would be too late so I decided to consider 2A. At the base of the road leading up to 2A I realised it would be a steep climb but it was either that or come back early so went for it. I ended up 1 second under at 44:59 and Ian 1 second over at 45:01 so we ultimately ended up with the same points. He linked up 3E, 1J, 3B, 1H, 2E and 3H in a different order to me. It was interesting talking to people afterwards as everyone had a different sequential solution to the problem!

C • WOW 1

People coming daily to collect free items I am disposing of via gumtree.
Finding it typically easiest just to leave the item on the driveway and let people collect it so I don't have to come home specially for zero money.

A few years back my brother was dumping a very heavy approximately 2-3 m square four way gym set with stations for leg press, arms etc. I disassembled it, transported it to Wallalong, and reassembled it which took several hours. And there it sat unused for 2 years. Today someone came and disassembled it again for free and took it away in their ute.

Next door neighbour will be coming on weekend to pay for multiple 100 metre rolls of chicken wire for fencing (which I can get for free from work on salvage if they have a hole or other problem midway through), rusty star droppers and treated pine poles left over from dog yard demolition. I haven't used these in 5 years since I moved in and built the original dog enclosure. So less things cluttering up the shed and less for me to have to potentially move if I proceed with house sale.

Time approximate. Continuing to weed driveway and improve house presentation.

All day solo continuing shed clearout, house cleanup and further fire pit burnoff.

Packed up all my university text books (from 24 years ago), miscellaneous gardening and cooking books, and the odd novels to take to 2nd hand book shop on Monday.

Went through the kitchen to pile all the unused Tupperware, containers and other odd items into a garbage bag to take to Vinnies on Monday.

Running out of things to throw out. I need to force myself to part with my 20 thick folders of university notes and assignments! They have been transported from Adelaide to Whyalla to Newcastle (Mayfield) to Newcastle (Cardiff) to Newcastle (Wallalong) and have never been looked at once. So if I am moving again its time for them to go.

No parkrun attendance this weekend.
Elected to spend time cleaning out the shed and advertising all spare furniture and unwanted items on gumtree.

Attended Karuah Oyster and Timber Festival with KC for something different.

At night decided to carry all my hoarded offcut lengths of timber from various projects (some of which have been transported from the prior house at Cardiff) to the fire pit and dispose of them to continue shed clearout.

All the lengths of treated pine were cut up into short lengths for disposal in my bin (and surreptitiously all the neighbours bins in my culdesac) on Wednesday.

Run training with KC as part of Meetup group.
Didn't push very hard at all.
20 minutes of stretches and warmup prior to this.

Left shoulder continues to be problematic post quad bike crash.

6:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Weeding front driveway. Last 30 minutes was by phone torchlight as had no reason to go inside.

Round 3 of pool blasting.
Stopped due to hypothermia and rain making it hard to clearly see through the water surface. Need another Round yet but may not get to it as have to return high pressure cleaner on Friday. Looking much better ... and would pass a potential new owners inspection ... but would prefer to get all of it.

Hosing all the buildup of blasted algae out of the two pool filter cartridges. It was amazing how heavy they were to lift out versus how light they were when put back. It was after 7:30 pm when finished so was getting close to pitch black.