Doing Words

Train in the rain, can you alleviate the pain?

// April 4th, 2010 // My life

Through the heavy showers of an Easter Sunday morning I set out with Nadya, Tim and Roger at 6:30am to complete a quick morning training walk down the Lane Cove river catchment from Thornleigh back home to Naremburn, a distance of about 25km.

Here’s the first half of our route (captured before my iPhone battery died) and our 10-12 mins/km pace is good, although it was largely downhill (following a river towards the sea is like that).

It was raining heavily at times and I was soaking wet but warm with the exercise and a moderately warm morning. Nothing makes wet shoes and socks fun, however. The rain meant I was unable to snag any photos, sorry.

It’s very cool to live in a big urbanised city like Sydney and still walk from the outskirts to the interior almost entirely in the bush for 20 of our 25kms.

It’s cooler still to finish a training walk right on your front door. Most endurance training events involve a lengthy train or car journey at either end, and there’s generally nothing worse than spending an hour or more, wet, muddy and tired, in a car or train waiting to get home before you can slip into a bath.

Next weekend I’m visiting friends in Melbourne but the team will be out there training again, and I’ll have to catch up during the week. Spare a thought for them, and spare a dollar or two if you can to sponsor us — we still have more than $1,000 to raise in donations before the event, in less than a month. Ruh-roh!

Here’s the online donation page.