Training Log Archive: Craney

At Crooked Straight, came 11th, +26mins or so. Oh dear, pretty disastrous run for me. Not sure why, I was kind of keen - but probably not in any real mindset to race with all the hecticness. Set off with no urgency and let Aston and Pat get out of sight for no real reason, so took my own route to #4 dropping to the control thinking "haha I've managed to get ahead of everyone" only to find myself in completely the wrong place. So ensued about 2hrs of quality time to myself running through the desert enabling me to analyse a lot about the world and my place in it while steadily running out of steam to the point where I could hardly move because of all the sand. Which was nice. At least Grace won so the journey was worth it :)

At Wiela/Bunyip Reach, came 5th, +2:33mins to Aston. Got to SA a bit early forgetting the 30min time zone change (fruit reminders rightly more important than time reminders as you drive from Mildura to Renmark). I started first for split start reasons, so it was kind of fun having the area to myself. Got the heat of the day though somehow. Anyway, fun course, not especially tricky but enough to catch you out if you weren't playing attention. And definitely enjoyed running in very different deserty-style terrain with just small bushes, sandy banks and erosion gullies to go by. Had a good run, felt ok, got tired - and in the end wasn't too far behind the youngsters.

Then took longer going around the W10N shadow course with Florence crying that she hated the spikey desert and stopping to empty her shoes every 50m and Daisy simply refusing to walk at all so having to have a shoulder ride the whole way whilst I also had Isabelle trying to sleep on my tummy as I carried her too.

Drove Wagga to Mildura today, which took us through some proper outback. I really enjoyed seeing nothing much along the way, and the girls were very good. The Hay plains reminded me of the New Forest in a way. Anyway, stopped in Hay for a prolonged lunch - a very well looked after town. Did a nice run on trails through big gum trees following the Murrumbidgee and felt alright. Mildura was very pleasant when we got there. Nice cabin right by the river, and very nice pizzas too.

Getting into the swing of 9pm running. This time we had set off on our drive to SA, stopping in Forest Hill - suburb outside of Wagga. Stayed in a nice enough cabin, but right by the highway next to the airport - noisy night. Jog was nice enough and felt alright. The suburb reminded me of Weeping Cross, where I did most of my evening running in my teenage years.

Another late one. Tried to do some grassy running on Mawson playing fields, but they kept turning the flodlights off just as I got to the next field.

Late one around Chifley and Lyons on bike paths. Sleety night. Sleepy tired but moving ok.

Cruise around Turner.