Training Log Archive: Sanders

My brother was in town today and was keen for a long run as part of his so-called iron man training, so we jogged round west basin. Good fun but I really struggled by the end.

C • Awesome work 2

Canberra Three Peaks Mountain running race. Wow I pulled off a good one today. Hadn't fully decided which race to do so arrived pretty early and John Harding assured me the rainy weather would fine up, so decided to tackle the 26 km. Felt quite OK and must have paced it fairly well because I had enough energy to run up nearly all the hills and finish fairly strongly. Had to walk up the steps of Ainslie, though, that was a killer.

C • Fantastic run! 5

Bilbys novice training down by the yacht club on Lake BG. First lake swim today! It was so exciting, I really enjoyed it. We did a "mini-tri" with about 100 m swim, then a ride round Yarralumla, and about a 1km run, nothing too major, but I am such a crap swimmer I was pretty well last in my wave and had to cane it on the bike and run. Heaps of fun, apart from the freezing water. It's really difficult to breathe in such cold water, that was a bit of a shock. But I got through it OK (just).... next time I will not run over Ainslie or Majura beforehand.

Short bunch ride after the mini-tri.
Rode home after, too, legs completely dead.

brrrrr a chilly one at dicko this morning - steam coming off the water when we jumped in. I had a nice layer of goosebumps the whole time. But sunrise was lovely and the sun warmed me up.

Interesting bilbys tonight - hill reps at hackett. A fun, fast set (10 x 1 min reps). Tried hard to catch devil and gary on the hill but couldn't, they were way ahead and very speedy. Top evening for it too.

bilbys novice bunch ride. we rode up to sutton today and it was heaps of fun, pretty cruisy pace but I was only in the intermediate group again so didn't expect too much pace-wise. 2x crashes of people failing to unclip at intersections, v. funny to watch (but not for them). So incredibly tired due to mega early start and not much sleep recently, will have to severely increase caffeine intake to illegal doping levels today just to stay awake, or invest in some matchsticks to prop eyes open. or maybe some of those funny homer simpson glasses with eyes painted on the front so I can sleep and nobody will notice my eyes are closed.

C • not much sleep? 5

run, black mountain, nice evening.

bilbys running, big laps of dickson oval. I did medium set of 3x big laps (approx 1 km) then two laps alternating fast on the longs and easy on the shorts. couldn't quite get it together today and danny smashed me.

commuting today, got stuck at work until it was really really late so had to take the sneaky route home through the uni, over comm bridge, then up alexandrina because I was afraid to go through westbourne woods in the dark with a dodgy light.

arvo run around little black mtn then up into o'connor. longer than expected but did it pretty slowly.