Sunday Mar 9 |
 | Road Bike (Commute) 35:00 [1] 11 km (3:11 / km) | |
| shoes: Bike, Gary Fisher mtb |
| Lovely day for a blob. Not such a nice day to be at work. |
| Weird Stuff (spin class) 50:00 [4] 22 km (2:16 / km) | |
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| The Keiser bikes are so smooth, but although I did plenty of hard work it's not the same sort of productive hard work as say a windtrainer session would be. Probably 'cos the instructors are just instructors and not cyclists. Sweat rather a lot. |
| Swimming 17:40 [2] 1 km (17:40 / km) | |
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| Was going to put this down as 'weird stuff' but then reneged and decided that swimming used to be a regular in my log. Wandered over from the spin class, clambered in, swam a straight km then got out and rode home. |
| Road Bike (commute) 36:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Bike, Gary Fisher mtb |
| This sucked, a headwind and MTBjen on the roadbike to humiliate me. |
Saturday Mar 8 |
| Orienteering (Mt Billy training) 1:07:10 [3]*** 8.87 km (7:34 / km) +150m 6:59 / km | |
| spiked:16/19c shoes: Asics Trabuco |
| GPS says I spent 11mins stopped - about half of that was talking to Jen when I caught her and then a later comfort pause. First bush orienteer since about June or July last year and I certainly felt rusty, my trotting pace was exactly matched to my map reading ability and I found it hard to imagine I should be going 25% faster and still be able to read the map. Was surprised to find toilet paper controls much easier to spot than survey tape controls, bit more like looking for a normal control rather than having to get within 5 inches of the survey tape to spot it sometimes.
Had an excellent mistake on the second last control after a pretty clean trot up till then. Had seen no-one since passing Fog and Carol at number 9 and then at 18 chased Tony W into the control and left on the heels of LOST Richard and Boltboi with Ken B lurking nearby. Boltboi went straight, LR went around. I glanced at the map and decided to go around as well and use Boltboi's (reputation as a good navigator) trajectory as an intercept for the control site. A few errors all combined then i) I trusted Boltboi ii) I stopped reading the map iii) I began running properly iv) I crossed the big creek without checking its angle. When I realised that neither Boltboi or Richard (both ahead of me) had any idea where they were I went up the creek to a likely looking brown dot, realised it was wayyyyyy too far up the hill then hot-footed it for the right spot some 400m+ away. Must've been Boltboi's altered orthotics forcing him to run on an angle...
Ahh, the good old days. I bet Craig's never made mistakes that are so silly they're funny. |
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| C • Following the wrong person 3 |
| MTB (Gorrie Rd) 1:05:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Bike, Merida |
| Stopped at Gorrie Rd for a ride. Was looking forward to it but couldn't keep up with orthoticboi nor MTBjen and eventually was going to slowly up one hill that I fell off onto a pile of laterite rocks. Great. Then found my back brake was rubbing badly.... was it doing that before the crash?? Maybe that would explain my patheticness. Rode on to try and find the others before the aliens abducted me and fortunately they'd stopped to wait. Weakboi pretended he had schoolwork to do and bailed early to go home for a sleep, some DVD watching, a pizza and so forth. I soldiered on for a second lap - and managed to fall off on exactly the same section of lateritey track. This time I fell to the right, not the left, as the rocks were smaller there. Mentally I collapsed then and just tried to make it back to the car as it was blatently obvious that I no longer possessed any fitness, strength or MTBing ability whatsoever. I determined to work on my ice-cream consuming ability instead on the way home. |
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| C • Weakboi 10 |
Friday Mar 7 |
| Core Stability/Stretching (Beach Session) 25:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Barefoot |
| Usual exercises but I was much more energetic today than I have been in weeks, amazing what a week off can do for you. Wil, Ngaire, Jess, Soph and a belated spectate by MTBjen. Lovely swim after the 'cardio' set. |
| Running warm up/down 29:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Barefoot |
| SWarm-up, cool down and hard bits within the set. |
Tuesday Mar 4 |
| Running 23:00 [3] 5 km (4:36 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics Orient |
| Tired and sluggish 5km jog while others were disturbingly fresh after the weekend. I'm still yawning and flat, physically and mentally, the morning after. Not helped by the fact I'm in at work at 7am as the plant room for the 50m pool is the scene of a significant pipe rupture. Lots of pool bookings to politely cancel... definitely going to bail on tonight's usual long run and instead have a nap and then take the dog out. |
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| C • stupid 1 |
Monday Mar 3 |
| Running (dog jog) 20:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Barefoot |
| Easy jog on the beach in the evening. Body a bit tired but my legs felt really really loose and no hammy stiffness at all. I think I've noticed this before after this sort of long stuff. |