Monday Mar 31 |
 | Road Bike 3:00:00 [3] | |
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| HS for a coffee.
Felt good just to get outside again.
Great sunset. |
Saturday Mar 29 |
| Road Bike 30:00 [2] | |
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| Too sleep deprived to race in the morning. Too bad - last of the SS.
Planned on NS but got turned around by deluge of hail |
| Running 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| GC perim. Did not feel great. |
Thursday Mar 27 |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
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Monday Mar 24 |
| Running 2:00:00 [3] | |
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| Long run with O group in Lynn Valley. Super nice trail - one of the nicest. Moderate. Stomach turned on return route. |
| Road Bike 3:00:00 [2] | |
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| Tried for a big group road ride to Whytecliff. Six showed - most peeps working today. Easy pace peppered with hill intervals
Stomach was still off for the first half then improved. Legs are super tired. |
Sunday Mar 23 |
| Road Bike 1:30:00 [4] | |
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| Almost no one showed - 12 guys in As.
First couple laps were tame - followed a few moves.
One Masi attacked on the hill - I chased - probably stupid - be we had 4 and a reasonable gap - lack of enthusiasm from my colleagues and a hard charging Symm put a quick end to our fun. Next lap - just to prove I'm a slow learner I attacked again and was chased down. Couple EV guys got away and then their team mates shut everything down and blocked... pretty silly with a dozen guys. I could see RT getting antsy - so I got ready and followed his attack. It shattered the group... but killed me to... and just like that it was over.
Afterwards I noticed my new frame doesn't have a drain hole. It was sloshing with water. A really interesting feature for a Van bike and a west coast b company. Maybe next time I'll drill a hole, bring a straw and ditch the water bottles. |
| Paddling 25:00 [3] | |
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| cold/windy/wavy - kept it short |
Saturday Mar 22 |
| Road Bike 4:00:00 [4] | |
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| Nemesis Course + missed 4 races + Tuft in attendance fresh off World's Track in Australia (and he brought his friends) + 750m of no road + forgot to mount water bottle cages = one figgin' tough day.
My race was over in the middle of lap 2. The gravel was just way too deep for me (3"+) - plus it was in the middle of the downhill (surprise road construction). Stayed in it however and suffered for 11 laps. Half of the time I pulled a group of B's around the course. Got lapped by the attack group (3 Symmetrics +2) with 5 to go. With 2 to go the "peleton" passed (5 or 6 guys). Last two laps were pure suffering. Technically a top 15 finish - but thats just because 3/4 of the field dropped out. |
Friday Mar 21 |
| Road Bike 3:10:00 [3] | |
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| LG - DeepC - 2ndNar - Ad. Ran into Abs. |
Thursday Mar 20 |
| Road Bike 2:30:00 [3] | |
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| New Ride!
Whyteciff. |
Wednesday Mar 19 |
| Running 1:10:00 [3] | |
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| GC - Possessed |
Tuesday Mar 18 |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
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| Park - easy |
Monday Mar 17 |
| Running 2:00:00 [3] | |
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| Pacific Spirit - Solid Run
16th - HuckB - SwordF - tide looked insanely low - so down - mud run - beach - rocks - trail 3 up - Admiral - back. |
Sunday Mar 16 |
| Mountain Bike 5:00:00 [3] | |
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| w Ken D & crew.
Lynn - Redemption - Fromme - Pipeline.
Mostly super technical and slow with some silly DH on Fromme. |
Saturday Mar 15 |
| Mountain Bike 3:00:00 [3] | |
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| Riverside to Br Path to Seymour - tried to get up to Ned's but ran out of light. Road back. |
Friday Mar 14 |
| Mountain Bike 1:20:00 [3] | |
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| To and from PSP |
| Running 40:00 [3] | |
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| Easy run with TN |
Thursday Mar 13 |
| Mountain Bike 3:10:00 [3] | |
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| Road - Whytecliff |
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| C • biking 7 |
Wednesday Mar 12 |
| Mountain Bike 3:00:00 [3] | |
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| NS - br
Met Ivan and Alayna - rode back with them to LG. |
Sunday Mar 9 |
| Mountain Bike 3:00:00 [3] | |
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| 2nd Nar - Baden Powel loop - Bottle Top - Liloot. |
Saturday Mar 8 |
| Running 2:00:00 [3] | |
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| QE 8 - GC x2 |
Thursday Mar 6 |
| Note | |
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| I've decided that road biking sucks... I'm switching to mountain biking... oh and my road bike just got stolen... probably a coincidence :). |
| Running 45:00 [2] | |
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| Pacific Spirit with TN. |
Wednesday Mar 5 |
| Road Bike 2:00:00 [2] | |
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| 1st Team Training Ride - yippee! F-dog, Stu, MC, and Abs too. Jack joined in on the fun too with tales of superman riding in Florida.
Super easy around Jericho and UBC a few times. |
| Road Bike 2:20:00 [3] | |
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| HS-br |
Sunday Mar 2 |
| Road Bike 3:00:00 [4]100 km (1:48 / km) | |
| shoes: Kys08 |
| Racing season has begun... with a bang.
Theme of the day: "see if you can count the crashes"
Rode A's. Symmetrics was in the house (but not in full force as they were pretty much a non factor). A couple nonames went on the first lap - should have gone - but I assumed Symm would shut them down. On lap 2 I saw Kindree go - so I sprinted up to him (for old time sake) - but nothing came of it. Lap 3 - dropped back to take off my arm warmers - just in time to see a wave of rear wheels leaping into the heavens... for a second it seemed like a logo-high ocean swell and I better sheet in and get ready to fly. Somehow I managed to stay upright - though I did get tangled up and bent a spoke. Then chase hard hard to get back on the peleton... but they slowed anyway. I figured the jitters would subside... but the party was just getting started. I stayed in the pack for the next 4 or 5 and tried to behave myself. Eventually I worked my way up and noticed Kindree again rolling ahead so I went - with apparently two Syms in tow. Round the corner they sprinted around and somehow I got back on. Thought we had a break but next corner third wheel got spooked and went down super hard about a meter to my side. By then the other categories decided to get in on the action and the road became littered with crashes. Ambulances were called and our pace went from neutral to hard to neutral. Tried to break a few more times but kept having to slow for crashes. About six to go I flatted (almost exactly like last year) which was disappointing - but they canceled the race a couple laps later. Never seen anything like it.
Total carnage: six crashes (that I knew about) - and three ambulances. I think I'll pass on the next short and flat race... too many punters in the mix.
** Found out days later (from Jack) that those punks probably were "imposters"... the big boys from Symmetrics are in a tour in Mexico... should be back for next weekend. |
| Running 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Toward GC |
Saturday Mar 1 |
| Road Bike 2:00:00 [2] | |
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| WV - bench |