Training Log Archive: devil

Was planning on a very easy ride today - out to wallaroo road and back. There was a good headwind on the way out and a few of us were spilt off from the main bunch after a stoppage - it was quite hard work getting back on. Was happy that the viking and a few others decided to take a direct route back to the nun, where the french toast with bacon, banana and maple syrup sleeper was discovered.

Bilbys swimming - usual small group. Was swimming particularly badly so jess made me do 200m of catch up drill, this just made me tired but didn't make a lot of difference to my technique.

The lights were off at the ovals tonight so the four hardy people (sanders, kate and another girl) who turned up headed over to do the north lyneham hills. Ran them quite hard with kate following close behind. A good sharpening set for sunday's shannon showdown...

Tuesday bilbys, a shorter, faster n than usual with pyramid of 4x 200, 2x, 400, 600, 1k, 600, 2x400, 4 x200 with 200m recoveries between each. Hung on the back of the fast group for the whole set so may have been a bit quicker than usual.

Warmup, stretches, in between ints and warmdown. Andre was taking the session this week so there was more fluffing around in the warmup than usual, but it was good to get a more speed-oriented set for a change.

Was supposed to be the bilbys 5 peaks but everyone was dropping like flies so it ended up as 4; stromlo, red hill, mt pleasant and ainslie. Very cold at the start and quite a bit of ice on the road on stromlo. There were also lots of roos everywhere. I wasn't too unhappy not to do blackie as I was fading a bit on ainslie as it was.

Cockies long run with sanders, acejase, robw and jla. Classic route majura-pines-hh-ainslie-tt. Pushed up ainslie as I figure I need to do as many hills as possible at the moment. After we had brunch at deli aranda with flame-grilled sleepers expertly cooked on the party 5 by robw.