Training Log Archive: jennycas

First of the Arrows' Sprint Series! Once things quietened down on registration and the start (which took a while as the numbers were pretty good despite it being a warm night) I went for a run around the long course and discovered that while my revised version may have been 200m shorter in a direct line, it was actually now about 500m longer in real distance. I'd anticipated actual distance being about 4.5km but more than one person's Garmin measured 5km - oops (rookie error by not actually measuring it myself).

C • Distance 2

Course 1 - Splits

More relaxing than being at work :)

Long Gully and back with a splitting headache. It was much better by the end - I think I'm just trying to keep too much stuff in my head this week. Had meant to go and see what the blackberries are like in the redwoods, but maybe that's something for this weekend.

C • Blackberries 4

Work was rather messy today and when I realised I wasn't going to make it to Morialta I figured it was a good idea to give the hamstring that had been twinging worse since last night (dunno why?) a rest and so talked George into coming with me to walk around Adelaide Uni taping control sites, so I could show him architecture and features he'd never seen before. We stopped at aThai restaurant on the way home which was nice although it did mean I was then working on my maps until pretty late.

Run about the 'dene with F&T, B&S, Troy after which I had to rush off to Wallaringa meeting, some of which was conducted by candlelight.

Power failures due to the strong winds were not so amusing at 2:45am when the security monitoring system rang to tell me that the fridge alarms were going off in the pharmacy department. Leaving George to clean up the wet spot where the cat had pissed on our bed (what the? She's such a scaredy-cat that she hardly ever comes inside, much less into our room; I can only think that the sound of the on call phone ringing startled her!) I nipped in to work and reset the alarms, checking that the fridges had indeed gone on to backup power and the temperature gauges were reading okay.

An hour later, I was still trying to get to sleep in the spare room bed (oh dear, it's horribly soft, and I must apologise to all our guests who have ever had to sleep on it) and the power came back on. Shortly thereafter, the phone rang again: "Your fridge alarm's going off..." so I got dressed again, hopped in the car again, and didn't even make it to the end of the street because of the sparks blowing from the tree which was catching fire in the powerlines on the corner. Went back home and while I was debating whether to ring the MFS or ETSA, the power went off, the firies turned up, and the phone rang yet again! Seems that even a couple of seconds' interruption to the power supply will trigger the alarms, before the alternate power source has time to kick in :(

I told security not to call me again when the power came back on again - but did go back in at 7am to reset the alarms again.

C • Rough night 10

It really wasn't the best sleeping night with a minimum above 30, plus I reckon I went to bed dehydrated. Then managed to sleep through my alarm so got to Bridgewater late & headachey. A couple of salt tablets helped and so did the comparatively gentle pace. Heysen trail (they have put big stepping stones in the swamp bottom) and main road to Mylor with B&S, Liv, John, AK, Zara/Callum while F&T did their own thing. After drink & stretch at the school we went up Wilson Rd, then I convinced A & Z that we should take the old Heysen trail down/up through Engelbrecht reserve and finish off via the waterhole. Worked out okay and there were even some cool damp spots. Obviously the thunderclouds I was watching over Mt Lofty yesterday actually dumped something.

Made the most of the cool air in the valley, before going and spending the morning in airconditioned comfort in the dispensary. It was pleasant not to be sweaty, unlike last night when I seriously think you could have bottled the quantity I was producing (eau de Jenie? Jenie in a bottle?).