Saturday May 31 |
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| Went out to stromlo>coppins>holt then met up with thomas and andy C and we went round the lake and up ainsle then had a coffee at as nature intended, beautiful morning and a fun ride. |
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| C • as nature intended 4 |
Friday May 30 |
| Gympa/Strength 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Boxing with Joycey from work and his big mate Rudi, did some squats, step-ups etc to start and then a sort of a circuit with different types of punching and situps. Finished with a bit of play/controlled sparring, got a clip on the lip from joycey to remind me to keep my hands up. Great fun. |
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| C • Joycey 2 |
Thursday May 29 |
| Orienteering 30:00 [3] | |
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| Cockies star relay, Heather and i took victory, nice work Heather! A fun training with pretty even teams. |
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| C • Yeah! 1 |
Wednesday May 28 |
| Road bike 2:30:00 [3] | |
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| Cotter - Urriarra with Pete W and Ian Prosser for the 2nd half. It was pretty cold and foggy in the valleys but spectacular on top of the hills. Hard work chasing Ian up the hills, i was cooked by the time i made it to work. |
Tuesday May 27 |
| Running 35:00 [3] | |
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| ABS Handicap round the lake, 7.1k, 24.40, i have bugger all chance these days since my handicap time is 23.00min and theres always some punter a min or two under their handicap time. Anyway i was struggling today, about a min slower than the pace i had last week in the fun run. |
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| C • Tapering for Great NOSH? 4 |
Sunday May 25 |
| Orienteering 55:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Helly Hansen trail |
| Orienteering out at felled timbers. Struggled to get going today after the race yesterday. Ran hard at the start but went nowhere in all the trimmings and then settled into a high tempo jog for the remainder which made it more enjoyable. |
Saturday May 24 |
| Running 50:00 [3] | |
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| saturday xc at mt ainslie, 9.5km 34.42, A cracker battle with grant, we seesawed the whole way with grant surging ahead on the hills and me getting back ahead on the flats, i was dreading the last climb up to the saddel only a km before the finish cos i was sure grant would be planning to make his move here, at the start of the climb grant dropped back a litte which i assumed to be part of some cunning tactic to mentally crack me when he blew past me a few moments later but actually he was just tired so the whole way up the hill i was nervously waiting for him to come past as i pulled away, got him by 30 sec in the end. One, One! Next race could be the Great Nosh on Grants home terrain.
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| C • Good work Rob 2 |
Friday May 23 |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
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| Worlds slowest run around gossan hill from work at lunchtime. Struggling after the fun run yesterday, its gunna be hard work fronting up for 9.5k against grant tomorrow |
Thursday May 22 |
| Running 45:00 [3] | |
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| The ABS Fun Run. 7.3km round the lake, i started pretty conservatively and then wound it up, my aim was to beat 25min and i did 24.50 so that was good, a bit better than i have been going lately and managed to beat alastair and ecmo home for the title of first ABS employee, i can only assume this will come with a significant pay rise... |
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| C • did you... 6 |
Wednesday May 21 |
| Running 50:00 [3] | |
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| Ran up to Jases to meet him for a lunchtime run, we bumped into brucie on his lunchtime dog run almost straight away and then jase took us on a tour of his great new house followed by a quck stop at the new jamo centre so i could by some bread for lunch before heading back to work. |
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| C • jammo 7 |
Tuesday May 20 |
| Running 55:00 [3] | |
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| Ran round the lake and up the creek with eric and alastair from work, felt ok. |
Monday May 19 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| No chance of training today, totally exhausted. |
Sunday May 18 |
| Orienteering 1:50:00 [3] | |
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| NOL classic, ran the first loop with morty and brian which was good, couple of bad routes around the green but they didnt really matter once we got into the tough 2nd half, plugged away with a good rythm but didnt take all the best route choices on a great course, had that real tired classic race feeling towards the end but almost enjoyed it after a pretty decent run. Bloody long trip home, finally got back at 2.30am. |
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| C • boo yaa 8 |
Saturday May 17 |
| Orienteering 35:00 [3] | |
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| NOL sprint race, started pretty scrappily but got into a good rythm after the 3rd and actually read the map and orienteered properly for the first time in a while, felt good to have that feeling again. great bit of terrain and course. inc warm up and down. |
| Orienteering 55:00 [3] | |
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| NOL middle, was looking forward to this after the morning but i really struggled on the first and really just stumbled into it, got into a good rythm like the morning after that but got a bit scrappy in the real tricky part towards the end, great course and terrain. The most fun orienteering i have done for ages. |
Thursday May 15 |
| Running 50:00 [3] | |
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| Ran to work through blackie and aranda hill. |
Wednesday May 14 |
| Road bike 2:30:00 [3] | |
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| Dragged myself out of bed at the cracker to do cotter urriarra with pete, nath and prosseri. Once we got going it was really fun though, had a few little surges/sprints on the climbs and then on the two rises on the bike path just like the old days, nath came from nowhere to take urriarra from prosseri but ian was king out of the cotter. Had a coffee at Gus' after with nath. |
Tuesday May 13 |
| Running 35:00 [3] | |
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| Ran a lap of the lake at lunchtime, did 5 x 3min efforts with a min jog recovery. Seemed like every joint was aching and i was going up and down on the spot but was going better by the end, cracker day too. |
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| C • Serious 5 |
Sunday May 11 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Orienteering at Big badja. Great area and course, unfortunately i was doing a bit too much reminiscing and a bit too little navigating while i was out on the course, i've got some work to do if i'm gunna break grants stranglehold of victories over me in forest orientering. |
Saturday May 10 |
| Running 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| "jogged" up mt tennant with grant to cheer tdh on at the aus mtn running champs. Glad i wasnt in the race, it was all i could muster not to stop and walk great view from the top though. |
Friday May 9 |
| Mountain Biking 2:00:00 [3] | |
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| MTB on Bruce ridge with TW and Cowie. I was crap, felt like i was about to crash on every corner and some straight bits as well. |
Thursday May 8 |
| Orienteering 50:00 [3] | |
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| Cockies intervals, 5 x short uphill efforts 2-3min each jog down recovery. Good fun once i warmed up and felt ok. Watch out in 3 weeks at the next winter series showdown Grant!! |
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| C • 3 weeks? 2 |
Wednesday May 7 |
| Running 45:00 [3] | |
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| Ran home from work again via fern hill, bruce ridge singletacks and a new singletrack i have never been on through the little triangle of forest between belco way and turner. 45 min as usual. |
Tuesday May 6 |
| Running 50:00 [3] | |
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| Ran home from work over aranda hill and black mtn, felt pretty good after no running yestdy. A long time since i've been up to the top of black mtn. |
Sunday May 4 |
| Running 1:10:00 [3] | |
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| Started the long run with the group at hackett. I was pushing max but after 10min the pram got a flat so i headed back to the car where i thought i had a repair kit in my bag but i'd taken it out so i just pumped up the tyre hard and headed out again till it went flat then pumped it up again to get back. Beautiful morning for running. |
Saturday May 3 |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
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| ACT XC club showdown with Grant. We both realised the xc was on after independently reading Blairs log and decided to give it a crack, once i found out Grant was doing it the pressure was on esp after he started sledging me via sms in the leadup. I didn't really have a tactic before the start but grant pretty quickly pulled out a lead and from then on my plan was to minimise the damage and hope Grant cracked on the last hill. He didn't and i never got near him. Anyway i was pretty happy with my run, 11.16 on the first lap and 11.13 on the second lap. 1.35 slower than last time i ran this course in 2001. Maybe we'll have round 2 next week... Grant?? |
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| C • your on 3 |
Friday May 2 |
| Running 35:00 [3] | |
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| Ran round the lake at lunchtime, did a bit of fartlek, 10 x 70sec/20sec, seemed to go on forever... |
Thursday May 1 |
| Orienteering 55:00 [3] | |
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| Cockies training, great fun training round black mtn and aranda hill. Took it pretty easy after the early morning watching the champions leauge. Ran to work after. |
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| C • hey 8 |