Training Log Archive: devil

Bilbys cotter uriarra ride. First proper ride for two weeks, and it was a good morning for it. I was feeling pretty good after an easy week and guy was complaining that I was too fast when I got on the front even though I thought I was just going along at an easy pace. Climbed up mt mac better than I have in a long time and was even in front of darren the NZ ear force rider. Most of the bunch headed to condor, but as it's taper time I headed back with guy anna and a. nother. A bit of a long coffee afterwards as we were first there and all the slower bunches drifted after behind us.

Gear check all done - there's quite a bit to carry!

C • TNF100 2

Thursday intervals at lake G. Not a very big group, just gary, emily and keith, although nat and guy started late behind us. A set of 8x 3min, I was sort of taking it easy but keith kept upping the pace so it ended up being quite solid. Includes warmup and warmdown bits.

Usual warmup stuff at bilbys.....

Whistle set at bilbys - my least favourite. 6x 4min with 2 min recovery. Tried to keep it consistent. Legs were a bit tired from the weekend and wasn't helped by the track being pretty soggy from a good watering. Was running in lane 5 so was trying hard to keep up with lance, jonno and guy in the inside lanes.

ACT long at Boboyan divide. A bit of a chilly start and took a bit of an in between route to 1, feeling that the track was a cop-out but the straight option looked slow. Caught the rev at 1, so wasn't too bad a choice. Then saw geoff going into 2, so had now caught up the two runners in front of me. There were about 5 people searching for 5 and I ended up exiting behind geoff. There was a bit of leapfrogging with the rev through to 6. Going to 8 geoff dropped me and I was a bit hesitant into the control but then caught the mini-pack again at 10 where they'd all gone one clearing too far. Was beginning to get fed up of fallen timber by now but got through the 10-14 loop OK. Geoff did a massive face plant on the way to 15 on one of the fallen fences and looked a bit shaken up. We had a vic runner with us by this stage who got away on the little loop (16-17) but I caught him again at the pivot. We ran the rest together, although my main contribution was nailing 19. 14th and just over 2 hours was a pretty good result for me and was 3rd cockie too, seems like I should only run long at 21E.

C • 3rd Cockie 2