Training Log Archive: BB

LBG circuit - nice riding conditions with only 3 chest layers, arm warmers, full fingered gloves, full tights over bib an brace and little lucifer socks. Lot of people exercising around central basin and a few unusually over near the wetlands on east basin - despite the early hour. Bike making an annoying rattle on rougher surfaces - need to get more wa gst to make the paths super smooth to overcome my issue. However, as this is an unlikely solution spent time after the ride repacking tool kit and tightening headset and handle bar bolts on bike - test ride suggests I might have solved this wicked problem.

C • GST 6

Longer run today with KB - included a lap of the full Deek's cross country course to get enough distance. Nice and sunny but a little cool in the occasional shady parts.

Nice sunny and still day for a ride. With Peter we rode up Stromlo then headed out west on fire trails before heading home via Denman Prospect and Stromlo - way too many cars in the car park at Stromlo - lots of people out bike exercising - must be risking getting the car park closed on weekends for social distancing reasons. Garmin stopped towards the end so timing and distance a bit of a guesstimate.

With KB on the usual route to Stromlo and back. Nice sunny morning.

C • 30 minutes 4

Rode around some of the new local suburbs with Liz on a nice sunny day. Seemed to climb a lot in the first half as we weaved our way around bike paths, footpaths and some roads (which had few cars but a lot of tradie utes). Most time exploring Denman Prospect which is planted right on the old Bluetts Pines map. It was a good map and a good area in the past. Now being converted to house blocks about 450 sq metres in size (so small) and a surprising number of apartment blocks. Also a number of nice looking playgrounds which are of course shut at present. Best playground was at the top of the old hill on the Bluetts Pines map - without the pines it will be a test to keep kids there on a windy and cold day as it is very exposed - but great views. Of the two to three hundred house that have been built there - or being built - I only saw one I like.
Takeaway coffee at Duffy shops afterwards and like ships passing in the night had a brief encounter with 2 other usual peloton members. Wonder if Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had COVID 19 in mind when he wrote the line in 1874. It seems very appropriate under current social distancing norms.