Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Street-O at Lilydale Heights, one of the more far-flung venues and one I haven't run on before. A semi-tropical night with dewpoints almost as high as they've ever been on a sustained basis in Melbourne (22-23) and intermittent showers of warm rain. Street-O control cards aren't made of particularly robust material, and keeping mine in one piece was quite a challenge.

No real route choice tonight. Felt OK at the start but still no extra gear for the hills or for extra speed. Settled into a pace 50 metres behind Ian Davies and 50 ahead of Rachel Johnson (clearly having an on week). Ian made a couple of small mistakes which put me ahead of him, but then I didn't see a gap in some vegetation which brought us back together with two controls to go. Rachel then kicked home as hard as she did a few weeks ago and once again there was nothing I could do about it, but at least I got Ian for the first time this season, which reinforces yesterday's impression of slight progress but progress none the less. Bruce wasn't there tonight; 5 minutes behind Bryan.

Not sure if the course-setter was a Gerry Rafferty fan, but there was a control in Baker Street.