Training Archive: SebbaIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-09:
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Sunday Mar 9 | ||
| Cycling 50:00 [3] | |
| recovery ride.
rolled round katoomba a bit before riding the cliff road round to leura for a morning coffee then headed straight back to K'ba. they sure dont make roads flat here. I came across a little pinch early on and almost didnt get up it. got up to 30kph (downhill) at one stage but decided that was way too fast and backed it down to 15 again. legs tired and useless but suprisingly not too sore. | ||
| walking 1 [3] | |
| met a german chick at the hostel last night and since i had nothing to do for the day we went and did a few cruisey walks. one at 3 sisters. did a loop at leura cascades. last one was at wentworth falls down to some waterfalls. pretty steep in some sections. she wanted to keep going to do a big loop at the falls so i just walked back up with 5 random swedes i met.
good fun weekend in the mtns despite the 'run' | ||
Saturday Mar 8 | ||
| Running (6ft track) 6:15:00 [3]45 km (8:20 / km) +1600m 7:05 / km | |
| I should NEVER have started today. Period.
I think deep down I knew it but just didn?t have the discipline to make the call. After 5km I knew I?d made the wrong call and it was going to be a long day. By 15km at the river crossing I was struggling despite trying to look after myself on the way. I rated myself 0 chance of finishing. I was finished. Walking was an effort and the prospect of 30km of it wasn?t an option. At every aid station from here for the next 15km I asked what are the chances of getting a lift out. I would have said yes in an instant but everytime I got the same answer of unless its an emergency you?ll have to wait till the entire field has passed thru. So I kept plodding away trying to get to the top of the climb in one piece. Really wanted to pull out at the top of pluvi (27km to go) but with the same response I decided to see how the black range treated me and keep going. Something happened to me here that has never happened. I forgot why I love doing stuff outdoors and all I could think about was how shit this was and how I wanted to be anywhere but here. Then I realised how disappointed I would be to have pulled out and that im not the only person around here struggling. I cheered up, started smiling, started feeling better?..and started running! Once I?d decided to try and finish I stopped stressing about how slow id been going the last 15km and got on with the job. I knew I was going to run a rubbish time but that no longer mattered, this had stopped being about time a long time ago. I felt proud to get a finish after it seeming an impossibility. Pretty tough day out and I will need to seriously rethink my motives if I am ever to do this run again. I?ve suffered way too much over that course to go straight back with the same frame of mind. Interesting day all up. | ||
| C • 6 ft 6 | ||
Friday Mar 7 | ||
| Cycling 1:30:00 [3] | |
| slow commute today | ||
Thursday Mar 6 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| (another) rest day.
will need it for weekend. had to drive to office today. pretty interesting. first and last time hopefully. | ||
Wednesday Mar 5 | ||
| Cycling 1:20:00 [3] | |
| commute. everyone seemed intent on running me over or being run over. stupid sydney people. | ||
| Cycling 1:05:00 [3] | |
| caught up with some dude on the pacific hwy riding home who had jumped on the pretentious single-speed bandwagon. Turned out to be Dari so rode home with him. He seems to have a bike for every occasion so we had to stop for him to change bikes before heading out on mona vale rd to terry hills for a little loop there.
Now anyone who has every ridden with me knows i like nothing more than putting the head down and tail up and working my arse off along a nice flat piece of bituman, which is true of course. But bloody oath, we got overtaken by a dude riding back towards st ives who was on an absolute mission. couldnt help myself but to jump on at 50+kph and see what it must feel like riding behind me....it feels fuckin awesome! felt much closer to human today and seem to have almost recovered from monday/tuesdays cold. am hopeful of at least making the start line of 6ft on the weekend. making the finish line will be another mater but one thing at a time. | ||
Monday Mar 3 | ||
| Cycling 40:00 [3] | |
| commute
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| Cycling 40:00 [3] | |
| woke up feeling so crap i wasnt going to ride but hoped it might make me feel better. didn't really but i didnt feel worse. got overtaken by some keeno on a mtb on pacific hwy. damaged my pride a bit but i got him back.
going to be a real easy week | ||
| Squash 40:00 [3] | |
| got done. | ||