Training Log Archive: Cakewoman

cycle on pipeline with alexa

C • timing 1

road ride with alexa around stanley and up to highfield house. very pretty - felt like we were in england. actually we both agreed stanley is like that town doc martin comes from. lo0ts of quaint cottages, rolling green hills, and wild seas surrounding us.

run with alexa up the nut and around loop track then a little bit along the base. pretty tired from this weeks epic training so was definately dragging the chain on this one. once again amazing views etc.

ankle was ok but of couse later in day i stepped up a step on a bush trail and confirmed that it's still stuffed really,

Cycling At dismal swamp on what they advertise as world class mountain bike trails.they were fun but andy and I found the intermediate one just a bit too hard and the easy one was a bit too easy although it was a bit hard for zali and jet t on their bmx bikes.forest was lovely.hate to think what the hard one was like!

fun fun single track riding just outside of ulverstone.

recon this is first time since 1995 - before i moved to sydney - that i've ridden three times in a week!

Ride with alexa from holiday house via promised land to crack pot.very pleasant except for constant rolling up hills and my frequent whining about them.

walk fr0m dove lake to w0mbat pool then wombat peak, down to crater lake then back to romy creek. saw lots of actual wombats as opposed to wombat typography. also it really took 2.5 hours becausse my crew consisted of 4, 5 and 7 yr olds (and alexa). also saw crazy running guy who caught up with us for lunchand we couldn't shake him after that.

C • Wombats 4

walked mt roland triple top course - mt claude, mt van dyke, mt roland - actually went up mt roland. Weather was.. inclement.. the entire way.

road cycling on my mtb from Caveside, back to chudleigh (9km) to mole creek (8km) to the road to paradise (8 km). I stopped at the bridge before the big climb over the Gog range and my support vehicles arrived 2 minutes later. perfect. Was really fun despite the driving rain for portions of it. Very scenic and pretty flat.

from tow bar place where car was getting a towbar installed (moonah) - back to wrest point.

I"m putting this in even though it was a fairly lame-arsed effort in that we lost AND I was half trying to make sure I didn't stuff up my ankle one day before our adventure at Sheffiled.

alum cliffs with Alexa. ankle ok for first 34 minutes then started to feel weird so i walked from there. no dramas though

Was expecting a beautiful morning - unfortunately it was a nightmare for kayaking - I need to learn to read the weather better - starting from sandy bay when the tide is high and there's a moderate North Westerly isn't the way to go! Got out before I fell out so some satisfaction there.

quick cycle from Nelson Road back to start of truganini track

Up trug, down skyline to nelson road. Was with a friend so got quite a few more breaks than normal!

From dru point and out around north west bay. Beautiful weather.

the lung/fitness part was fine. my ankle was the same-old, same old though - i.e. stanked.

Lacklustre swim due to shock of not having a tv screen in front of me

Subdivision 2009 85mins : Agree with David and Margaret - great cast, bad screenplay.

The Wire eps 2-4 : I think it's about drugs

Pushing Daisies : lost count

Have to say this DVDEnduro event is a harder disipline than you might think. i

Under dr's orders to rest today and tomorrow. Have undertaken grueling dvd program as replacement for training including :

Bruno 81mins : Resolved never to watch another Sacha Baren Cohen thing again - which reminds me that I made the same resolution after watching Borat. Dang

Drop Dead Gorgeous (2010) 92 mins : great potential but felt it needed a few more laughs.

Pushing Daisies Eps 1 - 4 160 mins: Nice concept and unique visual style - enjoyable but started to get distracted by backgammon on my mobile (Me and the Phone are having a ding-dong battle at the highest level. I'm up 2 games at the moment 11 - 9)

The Wire Ep 1 55 mins: Have no idea what is going on.

So at the ratio of 10 hrs dvd watching = 1 hr training what with getting up to change the dvd and shuffling to the kitchen for popcorn I'm sure you'll all agree that there is a solid 38 minutes training there. uh huh.

C • DDG 1

I don't normally count tennis but I did run around for a good 30 minutes of this and I don't have anything else to go with as I had to go straight from there to my cortisone injection.

C • Aarrgh 1

slightly less lame than yesterday's effort

very lame, but It was at least 30 minutes of exercise when I would have much preferred a nap.

Cruisy kayak with Clarabel

cycle from sandy bay to home - had nice tailwind. which was good because every muscle was aching when I started - either from doing building works (www.cathy.mccomb.com.au) , or playing 10 minutes of soccer against jon, or from kayaking yesterday. or maybe just getting flu.

Beautiful morning. Was gusty and choppy up in Sandy bay where I was but when I drove home it was completely flat around Kingston and looking out to sea. weird.

HAd a really nice swim - think the break between swims has done me good - i remember last week I just couldn't be arsed.

from sandy bay - nice and sunny again!

C • by the way... 1

cycle from north hobart where I dropped the car off for a service, home. will spend rest of day watching movies and eating popcorn

would have rathered do nothing as was quite buggered from building a two level kayak rack under the deck but since I'm on a 33 day role I wanted to keep it up.

C • You are on a roll! 3

out to end of pipeline and back then back down summerleas road to home. turns out it's not All downhill from ferntree there are some little hills too (very little but I was still outraged). about 42 to end of track.