Training Archive: Fat RatIn the 7 days ending 2007-10-28:
| [csv] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| « | » |
| » now | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
| |||||||||
| M | T | W | H | F | S | S | |||||||
Sunday Oct 28 | ||
| Adventure Race race (Teva Championships) 4:43:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline ASR | ||
| Teva Champs down near Nowra.
2nd with Robbie and Kathryn behind Mountain Designs (MDs) Was a really great race, and the challenges were decent and not too dicky which made for a really fun day. It was a pity they put a control in the wrong spot on which we lost 10-15min and which also determined the race. When will AR change?? We lost time before the start because Robbie can't sprint. It was a beach flag sprint to determine the start wave and Robbie was shit so we went in the second wave, 3min behind the first wave which contained all the decent teams really. The race started with a beach run and we smoked it up, making the 3min back on all but MDs. Then a short ocean (protected Bay) paddle before heading up a river. Think we paddled quite well, and it was quite fun. Came out of the paddle in the same position, then lost a few minutes trying to work out how to tie a bowline, apparently all the top teams apart from us know how to tie it. Then embarked on a MTB and after a bit of trouble with Kathryn working out the gears and finding a guy to answer question for a checkpoint we rode pretty well to the next TA. When we got there we were 7min down on MDs. We then scorched around an orienteeing section (which by this time was absolutely boiling) before getting back to the TA and some challenges. I got to swim through a dam which was pretty nice to cool off and Robbie can really throw a thong. MD had trouble in the challenge (cos they have no idea how to follow a bearing and distance (!) and we left on the next MTB stage with a decent lead, maybe 10min. But then the organisers put a control in the wrong spot and by the time we reached the next TA, MDs were a few minutes ahead of us again. A couple of challenges which were straight forward and then a long MTB stage to finish. We caught sight of them a couploe controls later which spurred us on, and then a couple controls later we passed them and made a gap. But they were better MTBing than us and flew passed us on some very rutted descents and flat sections (they all had flash bikes, were racing in MTB shoes and basically were more competent technically than us as a team). We could never close the gap and after a long hard race in the heat they beat us by 2 minutes (less than how far they started ahead of us after the beach sprint). So it was a good race from us, though by no means perfect.. but we came out of the race $1000 each poorer as a result :( | ||
| C • Rabbit 11 | ||
Saturday Oct 27 | ||
| Note | |
| killer hangover | ||
Friday Oct 26 | ||
| Run long 1:22:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline ASR 7 | ||
| Eary mmorning exploring of Pennant Hills Park
Was going to be a decent 90min run but I was knackered from last night and it was just one of those runs when everything was hard - kept picking dead end tracks, stubbed my toe hard and damaged a ligament or something and hard to be really careful they way I ran home. | ||
Thursday Oct 25 | ||
| Run intervals 23:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Brooks Trance | ||
| Stinger Hill Reps with Andy and Robbie
Been a while since we/I did Fullers Hill reps, which I had named something else but I can't remember. But this hill hurts like no other session we do, and this session was no different. did 6, I went out too hard and paid for it later. Good session though. 1'30, 1'33, 1'33, 1'45, 1'53, 1'37 | ||
| Run warm up/down 34:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Trance | ||
Wednesday Oct 24 | ||
| Summer Series 47:00 [4]** | |
| spiked:29/30c shoes: Brooks Racer ST | ||
| Abbotsford SSS
Pretty short course, although I didnt quite make it, just under 2 min late after getting all the controls (Andy got all in time). Started a bit after late and by a third the way round I couldnt see anything very well, be the last third I was stopping at every street lamp and trying to use map memory in the pitch black and rain. Despite that it was quite fun and I felt quite good stretching out. Ankle a little sore, been a bit sore since the rides yesterday (a bit weird!) | ||
Tuesday Oct 23 | ||
| Cycling (commute) 1:15:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Specialized Mountain Sport | ||
| with Phil on the way to work , but not back again.
Was another Phil train, eventually towards the end I couldnt hold his wheel anymore, did better than last week though i think. Shit it hurts though. On the ride home I went pretty hard, feels good going my version of hard. Cut off some time from last weeks ride, mainly due to kind traffic lights I think. | ||