Training Log Archive: Mess Engineer

Bailed after the 3 km mark (18:05) as too exhausted and didn't want to be wrecked for a new parkrun in the morning. Walked 1 km back.

Ordered another skip this morning and spent the morning smashing apart old furniture and filling skip.
Only 1/2 full by end of day. Getting harder as now need my mother to agree on every individual item. Also got skip guy to take away an old king size mattress which was surprisingly awkward to drag around.

Current plan is to start new job in Sydney 21st August.
This means I can knock off two new parkruns but that I won't catch up all the runs in South Australia.

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Waterfall Gully to Mount Lofty and return.
Even faster pace than last week with time up somewhere between 45 and 50 minutes.
Nice sunny winters day so got to take in the views compared to last weeks fog.

Station wagon full of paper so 35 minute drive afterwards to shredders to fill up 2 off 240 litre bins at $40 a bin (they can process a bin in under 4 minutes) which is a bargain compared to my hours of hand shredding at a limit of 15 pages at a time!

Fastest 4 km since I got back to Australia 22:32.
Still way from my prior speed in Newcastle (23:15 for 5 km) but at least times on way back down.
Stopped to chase and capture someone's escaped Siberian husky pup and check out a large flock of beautiful rainbow lorikeets perched in trees on the way back.

Up from 5:30 am to midday continuing to sort through junk but decided to take the afternoon off.

Repeat of last Wednesdays walk along the beach.

Actually met and talked to someone who not only knew what Orienteering was but actually had done events with her husband. She was a former member of the Onkaparinga club which drew up yesterday's map but she didn't know about the permanent course network in South Australia so when I described it and showed her the website she will now print some maps and reacquaint herself with the sport again.

Also explained to her about parkrun and she may start walking her nearest one at Christies Beach.

So I turned out to be an exercise ambassador today!

Also paid out the penalty clauses for ex employer in Netherlands today .... and apartment lease break costs .... so I am getting close to being able to close my bank account and move on from this saga.

Meetup walk with 5 others around Sheperds Hill recreation park which I had never ever visited before.
A few creek crossings and a climb up to railway tunnel and embankment which was somewhat interesting as one of the people on the walk told the story of how a train derailed and as a result they moved the tunnel, demolished the old bridge and built the new embankment.
No koalas, echidnas or wallabies spotted.

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Fixed Orienteering Course at Hawthorndene Reserve.
Did this as it was on the way back from the meetup walk.
Scale was 1:1800 so I think I spent more time at each control scribbling down the 2 letter ID then I did actually jogging around.
Very basic .... I enjoyed the other courses from a few years back at Belair and around central Adelaide more.

Rainy day with hail, lightening and forecast high winds so mother told me I was not going to drive her car!
So worked from 5:30 am to 7:30 pm in my Dads study sorting the paper contents of 6 off 3 drawer filing cabinets into piles for either bin or shredding.
I have now seen every tax return, job application, and letter he wrote from 1956 to 2015 so his meticulous record keeping is taking a while to dispose of!
Boring tedious task but thankfully will only have to do it once!

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57th parkrun at 28th location.
Attended the 3rd ever run at Cleland (I missed the inaugural event with flying to Newcastle two weeks ago) after a 10 minute mad search for barcode before giving up and printing new ones.
First Wooter to attend this event!
Came 22nd of 28 competitors and my slowest time ever but had to work hard.
I looked at the prior times before attending and best time was 21-22 minutes so I thought OMG it must be hilly .... and it was!
Out and back course and first half almost all downhill so you knew you were up for a slog on the way back ..... mapmyrun says 183 metre climb.
So not super steep but enough that multiple people, including myself, gave up and walked sections.
Still got Strathalbyn and Christies Beach to go before I head to Sydney but if that gets delayed I may fit in Gawler or a few ones further away.

Returned home, after disposing of two car tyres at an very obliging tyre shop, before returning to filling the skip and cutting overhanging trees over the roof.

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Jog from mothers house to Hazelwood Park.

Permanent Orienteering course for Hazelwood Park downloaded from Orienteering SA website.
15 controls.
I had done about 5 of these maps on prior visits but this one had been added in the last year.
Also downloaded some new others to try later in week.
Very basic but it got me out of the house but I was very much feeling the after affects from this morning.

Walk back to mothers as too tired to run uphill.