Training Log Archive: grilla

Event: 25th Sydney Summer Series #6 - Concord
 

ok effort, tight hamstrings tonight and left particularly bad. Chose the scenic route and enjoyed it, not the most efficient. rained early and traffic was heavy for a few road crossings, lucky to make it back just under 48 min as had to wait at road just before the finish.

I was not looking forward to today but survived it OK in the end. 25 min down on winner - about the best I could have hoped for and that was with 2 poor route choices which cost me probably 4 min each. Also got a flat just before second last. Poor preparation as when I got the cartridge out, worked out I had no nozzle. So had to put that back and resort to pump. Fortunately that worked without a tube, although stony section to last control was hard work and could not really go for it on downhill run to finish! Single tracks not as much fun as yesterday and steep hills super annoying. Fun riding around the old coal mine though.

Sprint at Torquay Beach. Not the most challenging course but still managed to lose time (and fall off) on way to 11. That slowed me up and lost impetus afterwards. Nice finish through the park.

Hard work! Not helped by being pretty dumb out of the start. Missed 1 -rode straight past and got very confused about things. Wrong way to 3 by not concentrating. Other than that lost time on way to 8, 10, 17 and 19! Not best route to 7, 12, 16, 22. Lots of room for improvement. 22 min behind superwoman (Marquita). Really liked most of the single tracks and was going out of my way to ride them - well worth it despite probably a bit of extra time. I was not here to win :)

Beautiful riding around the You Yangs - absolutely loved it! Could have spent hours riding the single tracks winding between trees.