Training Log Archive: jennycas

Warm in the pool but I got water in my ears.

Hardly had to help at the event tonight apart from control collecting, which was a relief after a very long week, so I hauled my unfriendly ultrafeminist ass around Bridget's tricksssy little course and did quite well, often because the controls were so easy to see that I just had to look in the right direction and I'd spot them. The Arrows celebrated the end of another successful Snap Sprint Series with pretty average pizza and I celebrated the fact that I can now go to Beechworth (severe lack of training notwithstanding) because EPAS Go Live has been postponed to April 4th.

Course 1 - Splits

I didn't have a large enough window between finishing work (work schmerk; not looking forward to being on call this weekend) and online OA board meeting, to go to Belair. Ran across to the bottom of Randell's reserve by which time it was clear that my legs would not be willing to propel me up the hill, so I went across to Mitcham and then home. Felt incredibly gumby, as though each leg had to be propelled forward individually and there was no continuity of motion.

By the way, I am reading Eat Pray Love which I picked up for $3:25 in an op-shop. Nobody has ever mentioned what an incredibly boring (self-absorbed) book it actually is!

C • It has a happy ending 2

Had intended a longer run but by the time I'd made it over to the park, I wanted to stop and walk. Staggered up the hill feeling as though someone had tied a baby elephant to my behind. Attempted to run faster on a flat section and it was as if my torso was made of wood with useless marionette legs attached.

Attack of the Killer Masseuse
Oh. My. God. Clearly I had amnesed how painful this process is. Physio's got nothing on massage in terms of inflicting torture! Adductors were worst of all, but butt came a close second. Hopefully now it won't ache any more when I sit down.

Took 47 min to drive across town tonight :( so nobody was there when I got to Morialta, although Troy materialised and socialised briefly before zooming off into the distance. I plodded up to Deep View (legs are absolutely lactic despite not having been made to do any real effort, my hamstring has been horrible any time I sat down today, and my back stiffens up in the night so regularly wakes me with pain at 4-5am) and when I got over towards the Central Track was feeling rather overheated and slightly queasy from this, so rested a bit before heading around the top of First Falls. Had to try really hard not to step on lizards which were skittering everywhere; tiny skinks and little dragons with frilled necks, yellow cheeks and blue-green flanks! Definitely felt better after run than before, but think Z is going to be shortchanged by her choice of rogaine partner because there's no way I can run for 4 hours by the 15th.

Down to Frank Smith Park, up the creek to Hawthorndene oval and back over to F&T's with B&S, Tyson, Troy.

Wallaringa club training day, using the permanent courses which start from near Belair station. Frank had set a couple of moderate courses which went cross country between the permanent controls. I ran reasonably hard on the first one and didn't feel too bad, so then I ran the second course which had some identical legs but was still good terrain practice, racing Andrew who was doing it in reverse. This one basically went down to the lake then came back up the hill. I died shortly after encountering Andrew at the halfway mark, and by the time I got back up the hill he'd probably cracked a cold beer and put his feet up, but at least there was incentive for me to keep running.

3.6km 26:09
3.2km 22:33

Followed by club brunch at Sheoak café and then parents & I went blackberrying in the National Park. I think we got our entry fee's worth :)

Too nice an evening not to. And Geoff was reasonably happy when he came back from Sydney as his dad's now out of intensive care and able to feed himself. (It was another attack of whatever obscure autoimmune condition got him last August.)

Such a beautiful morning to be in the pool. And then at least I felt I'd done something outdoorsy, despite having to spend the first day of autumn in an EPAS training workshop from 9am-6pm.