Training Log Archive: dreamweaver

Friday's ride supported the truism about regularity. After a few weeks off the bike, I really struggled so I thought I should get some more kms into the legs and bum today. Tried exploring the possibilities around Gosnells, Maddington and Southern River. Mostly pretty uninteresting. Managed to avoid hitting tRicky's pole and got a bit confused around the back of where he lives but pretty straightforward otherwise. Sadly, it reinforced the fact that I should have been a bike rider when I worked for the City of Gosnells and had some responsibility for footpaths and bikepaths et al. We did engage a high priced consulting firm to develop a coherent plan for developing the network but the result was a waste of money. I'd have a much better idea of how and why to connect all the random bits of path now.

C • Close 2

tRicky put in his usual mountain of work to create our first Ultra Sprint and it was great fun. Excellent venue (apart from the road works getting in) and a lovely morning. Great map with meticulous detail. My first leg on course 2 ended up with 2 MPs - in the trees on Abernathy Rd and in one of the alley ways at the back of the main building - I completely failed to see the third option :-(

C • Mountain of work 15

Second leg on course 1 - clean

Third leg on course 3 - also clean but the legs were really feeling it, even tho' I was only doing a fast walk. Ended up at the back of the field as usual but it was a great event. Be good to have one each year but the amount of work and the attention to detail required looks pretty daunting, even by orienteering standards.

Long 1 - Splits

Long 2 - Splits

Long 3 - Splits

Finally back on the bike, which is now super smooth following a major refurbishment - virtually anything that goes around (gears,cranks, brakes, bearings) was replaced after a complete strip down and clean. Only the wheels excluded. Today's ride was a challenging return - warm and pretty hard into the predicted easterly going out from Lake Monger to Tranby via the Narrows, Burswood and Garrett Rd; return via Aberdeen St was shorter and easier. The pain was eased by Rob shouting us all to morning tea - happy birthday for yesterday.