Training Log Archive: devil

Event: City2Surf
 

Back for a second crack at this as I had a preferred start from my time last year. Got a good warmup along with craney, matt parton, lance and keith the beard out the front of the start. Ended up near the back of the start group, so there was a little bit of traffic to negotiate. I tried to get into a good pushing hard pace through the first few km, and was going OK but didn't feel exactly speedy. Looking at my pace I dropped quite a bit on heartbreak hill, and going past the clock at the halfway point could see it was reading 27min, so wasn't looking good for going under the 52 min cut off. Caught keith the beard up here who said he wasn't having a great day. Ran beside him for a bit then went in front on one of the little climbs, where I was still able to keep pushing. Was good to see the 11 km mark and head downhill. Loads of people including keith went past here. Seemed to take a while to go along the front at bondi and round into the finish. Was behind lance, who had a good run in about 52.40, and well outside 52 mins. My legs are perhaps still a bit tired from the marathon two weeks ago so need a few easier weeks to recover, and maybe some stretches, foam rollering etc. Official time was 53.20

BIlbys ride with a very small bunch of four of us. Standard cotter urriara loop, with gary and I on the front for a lot of it. Perhaps not the best city to surf prep as there was a lot of work to do into a headwind on the way back. Bit really good to get back on the bike after a few weeks off.

Bilbys intervals with kenny and lance plus the random thursday bloke. Three of us are doing C2S so we did a pretty gentle set of 6x the big field plus the lower field. The first four were at chatting pace then we picked the pace up a bit for the last two.

Back to bilbys and the good old bilbys warmup. It was a bit nippy so it dodn't go on for as long as usual.

A C2S special set of 1 big lap then 4 laps with efforts on the long sides. The first lap didn't seem too good, but got some good speed going on the shorter intervals.