Training Archive: CrashIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-28:
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Saturday Jun 28 | ||
| MTB 1:30:00 [3] | |
| after a very long, slow drive to PA, we set up the bikes for a preride of tomorrows course. Soooooo humid here, and thunder is everywhere - hmmmm....but we rode anyway. We could definitely tell we were in the Alleghenies, as the course started rough and flat for about 1K before heading straight up - and into a 4K stretch of rock garden! Not a fun rock garden like we may be used to here, but a full on loose, baby-head, narrow rock garden. Talk about upper body work! If you let off just a little, or put your wheel in the wrong spot, you were off - and no chance of getting back on without a battle, as loss of momentum could suck you down. So it was a hammer-through, until we came upon the bear...yup; he thought we were cool, so blocked our path for awhile, then moved towards us some. We threw rocks in his general direction, and eventually he decided we looked less fun, so he hit the woods - whew...slight elevation of an already sky-rocketing HR.
We then began the climbing section (began!) - it was rough trail, rocky (!) and steep for another 5 K or so. After hitting a gravel road climb, we came to the top, and were rewarded with a massive cruise down to the bottom again - I saw 62kph on my spedometer - yay! A little more fun trail and we reached the end. I caught a glimpse of some of the run course while we were out there,and I had a feeling tomorrow might just be punishment for everything I had done wrong in my life so far...eeek! A fine apres dinner of hot dogs on the fire, pickled beets and red wine (yes, there were no restaurants out here, and a hot dog was the only protein source we could find at the local gas station...) and we drifted off to sleep - I dreamt of taco-ing my next to new Crossmax SLR's - both of them... | ||
Friday Jun 27 | ||
| Hiking 45:00 [2] | |
| easy cruise with pooches betw. packing and work...getting ready for the journey. | ||
Thursday Jun 26 | ||
| swim 30:00 [2] | |
| easy 1 lap of lake hunter in the early PM with dunc - | ||
| MTB 1:10:00 [2] | |
| fun cruise of albion and palgrave with bmbc after the swim - skies were dark, but it never amounted to anything - happily! | ||
Wednesday Jun 25 | ||
| Brick 2:15:00 [3] | |
| 10 min acti-flex warm up
30 min trail run at 75-80% 60 min bike (10 mins. 65-75%, 20 mins. 75-80%, 30 mins. 80-83%) 30 mins trail run 80-83% cool down to 120 bpm | ||
| C • Watch the newspaper 6 | ||
| swim 40:00 [2] | |
| first open water in Lake Hunter for 2008! Great swim in excellent temps. with Rocky, wayne, Karen and Clive - fishies abound... | ||
Tuesday Jun 24 | ||
| Trail run 35:00 [3] | |
| Run Tabata early AM
20 wu, 8x20 max, 10 easy, cool down home... | ||
| MTB 1:45:00 [3] | |
| what a night in the woods! Started out solo to do some speed work - bumped into Mike and Martin in the parking lot at palgrave east. Then I carried on into the woods, and bumped into Rocky, Scooby, and a bunch of others (husky crew?) on the red dog, so I joined them for a spin out to the end; then back to the parking lot, I met droo, jim, mike, and marty and joined them for the Tour de Palgrave - 3 sections at an easier pace. Then at the end again, bumped into Bru, Bill and Wayne! whew....the hills are alive. | ||
Monday Jun 23 | ||
| Hiking 50:00 [1] | |
| esay hike through Palgrave east - pressed for time and motivation today... | ||
Sunday Jun 22 | ||
| MTB race 1:57:00 [5] | |
| fourth slippery lap in the night at 1:01 - included a good slide out into the bushes - saguaro's were enough; shed well, but not too much grip - other's horror stories were much more exciting than mine so I will assume that the track had tightened up a little before I got there....it was ridable for the most part, but very exciting!
last lap at 56 mins. | ||
| MTB warm up/down 50:00 [3] | |
| as sat....warm ups and downs
A great race this weekend with a fun bunch of really fast women (on the bike that is...I can't speak to their personal lives...) Kudos got to Rocky for pulling fast laps after several days of multi hour trail runs - this girl is fit!! Thanks Vixens! | ||
| C • Congrats! 6 | ||