Training Log Archive: Mounty

Strange one. Got home from work at 1:30am (took a cab - disappointed with myself for not riding), then up early for a quick paddle before grannie dropped the kids back (Katrin had put them to bed at grannie's on the way to Dirtworks).

Feeling rather uninspired, but even more so when I realised Id left my paddle gear box at home. No time to return, so t-shirt and speedos it was. First half hour was a load of crap form and effort-wise, not to mention freezing my nanies off (brisk autumn sw still blowing). Decided to do some efforts to get going a bit and suprisingly started to feel pretty good. Did 15 * 30sec on-off, seem to do 45 strokes in 30 sec.

C • harden up Nancy boy. Any se... 1

Rode from Annika's t-ball in St Ives to work in the city. Weird riding the commuter bike with pack along Mona Vale Rd which is the usual roadie route.

6am get up a bit of a struggle after going to bed at 1. Went thru' 2 snooze cycles on the alarm.

Paddle from Fisherman's on the Mark 2 with Rob. Brisk offshore breeze but nice and sunny. Headed a fair way out to use the wind for the out-paddle, then snuck back in close to the beach on the way back to hide from the wind. Worked a treat. Great to get out on the ocean again. Hard to beat the morning view back on to Sydney.

Pretty tired though, quite content to paddle nice and relaxed.

Probably a good time to get the Mark2 out again in light of impending Geoquest. Will need to work out boat combos.

Early morning out and back river loop. Nice and misty along the water.

Offer too good to refuse to put in some long work days so a late one. Got home just before 11. Sleepy and legs a tad tired.

Annika's birthday meant a late start. Banana bread straight out of the oven (then into the sandwich press for some outer-crispness) for breakfast. Sublime.

Very enjoyable ride. Must have been the banana bread afterglow.

Worked out that dropping the heels gives extra traffic light stand stability.

Gym sess on the way home. Felt rather good.

10 minutes on the tready at end of gym session. 5min at 4m/k then 2min at 3m/k. Felt good to stretch out a bit.

Arvo cruisy Opera house loop with an LMC run thru in the middle to see where the legs are at - 2:41 comfortable. Bit of treadmill at the gym to finish with. A few minutes at 17.5km/h to get some flow/length in the stride. Felt better for it.

Bit of vmo doms after yesterday's first run in 2 weeks.

Late ride home. F'in freezing on the downhills. Did some one-legged drills through Willoughby - not sure what the dog walkers made of them.

One of those mornings. Pant-pooing incident just as we were leaving created some time pressure.

Took the High St, Nth Sydney shortcut to pull back time but got a flat in Nth Sydney. Forgot to pack the shaver in the poo melee, so looking very suave with a 4 day camping stubble to go with the work clothes.

And finally got harassed by some tool cyclist in North Sydney who took offence to being overtaken by a hairy legged mtb'er out of some lights in crows nest. He established the enormous girth of his pen1s by skillfully sprinting and cutting in (dangersously close) a couple of times at ensuing lights. Needless to say, I was impressed.

C • Incident 2

Lunch Opera House loop with a bit of core work at the end. Short & choppy for the first half, loosened up nicely by the end. Ankle stabiliser that I tweaked in Keen OK but wouldnt want to do a terrain run just yet (although probably could if i had to).