Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Didn't think 25 minutes of jogging-walking would be quite adequate for a Saturday in the exercise department so went out in the morning on the bike, initially towards my old haunts and then continuing on around the back of La Trobe, before a somewhat convoluted route back in the name of getting up past an hour without too many traffic stops (West Heidelberg is pretty good for this). Got more into it as it went on, and handled the hill which was a regular companion on the way home for 17 years without undue difficulty. The apartment-construction in the area around Darebin station is gathering pace (and La Trobe seems to have sprouted a new building since I was last there, too).

Sprint into Spring at Newport Lakes - thought I might as well go even though I wasn't going to be running properly (2 on/1 off were today's riding instructions), if only to get a look at an area which I haven't been to before - although I was starting to have second thoughts while in one of the numerous traffic jams on the way there.

Quite a good course on an unpromising map, with some big route choices early and then some control-picking on what seemed at first glance to be ordinary parkland - but was more complicated than that - later. Only negative was that it wasn't always obvious from the map where you were and weren't allowed to go. Overshot 7 in a moment of absent-mindedness, and didn't quite nail 23 either. Got more into it on the running side as it went on, and again no hints of calf trouble.

Some of my absent-mindedness was before I started - I left my O-kit bag at home so had to borrow an SI stick (appreciating in the process how much slower the old sticks were).

With 8 minutes of walking in the mix, no doubt my scalp will have been claimed by many for the first time. Looked like there was some worthwhile training happening afterwards but I'd exhausted my assigned running time quota for the day.