Training Log: simmo

Bassendean ride.

Almost 100 entries for my event, not too many elites so far though - biggest class is W70. Keep'em coming!

West Coast ride, including Reabold summit. Windy.

Event: Perry Lakes (Metro Series 6)
 

Metro race at Floreat, got the trace but forgot that it won't download so distance a guess. Was going to have a good look before choosing a route, but got sucked in and forgot to do it. I did count the number of controls South of Oceanic Drive and realised that I'd have to get at least 2 on the North side. After a couple of hesitations about which way to go, headed off on what I thought would probably be a bad route, just collecting the 4 controls around the Floreat ovals and then clearing the South except for no. 2, and so it turned out. 7-8-5 definitely wasn't ideal, but arrived at 8 the same time as Nick D, possibly giving him a bit of a scare.

3-25-24-14-13-12-9-10-11-7-8-5-6-4-1. Should have done the 5-6-4-1 bit first, then 2 and 8 controls N. of Oceanic Drive (18-17-22-23-21-24-14-13) rather than the 4 that I did get.

And today I got the 'usb not recognised' message again, so the tomtom's rebirth was short-lived. Around the river, including Mt Henry, just me, but PP and Carol came to the cafe.

Well, well - plugged the tomtom in to charge it as usual and went away, but when I came back a few minutes later there was my route in the tomtom app on the PC screen! All the other activities stored in the watch have downloaded too; can't be bothered to save gpx's for all the rides, but I will do the orienteering ones and post them here - as soon as I get around to sending my annual donation off to Ken.

Today's ride was Two Rivers, Southerlies impeding progress for the first two thirds of the ride.