Training Log Archive: Mounty

Pipeline toddle with Katrin in the double. Had intended a training paddle, but with both of us suffering from the CBF's, ended up plodding around really.

Highlight was passing a yacht that had sunk on its mooring but somehow come to rest vertically. It looked like a boat sitting as a boat should, except that everything below the mast spreaders was under water.

Embarrasing discovery - in shortening my paddle 4cm recently I forgot this meant that I should have moved the hand positioning tape 4cm apart, and hence have been paddling with hands too close together. Biig difference when putting hands back where they should be.

King of the Harbour race from Fisherman's to Manly Wharf in through the heads. Seabreeze was promising a nice stiff Nor' Easter, and grandpa was available for a car shuffle, so hoiked the boat on the roof and headed down to the beach once baseball umpiring duties were over.

Main purpose of the exercise was (a) to get some ocean time & (b) get flogged by real paddlers, and thereby motivated to train a bit for the 20 Beaches at Xmas. Success on both counts.

Got caught by the ol' kayak start trap - starter gave up trying to settle the field and fired the gun earlier than the 10minute warning gun said he should. Sprinted through the traffic and in to clear water after a few hundred metres. Unfortunately, the arms were f*cked by then - plodding along for hours at AR speed, and ski sprinting are very different beasts.

Enjoyable run from the reef down to North Head - the straight line takes you a few km offshore and hence in to clean swells. Felt I was doing OK on the runs, but the relative progress of my fellow punters hinted that wasn't quite true - work to do. Highlight was meeting a maxi yacht race coming the other way - they werent very happy about having to give way to a swarm of skis out there.

Bit of cliff bounce in thru' the heads, but not too bad and then an unwelcome headwind for the last couple of k in to the wharf. Acceptably tired at the end - fun.

Warm up

Early morning K1 pipeline spin. Struggled big time to get out of bed, but rewarded by a bewdiful summer morning once up.

Tide nice and high encouraged a slightly quicker paddle than planned. Pipeline split 40:30.

Tired.

Rode the Yeti home. Sleepy tired, exercise tired and hungry tired. But had to rush home to make school xmas carol concert(!) - gimme a break, its November. On the plus side, took home the hamper.

Rode to work from Malga, then home via Summer Series. Quite a nice bike path connection from Lane Cove back to Chatswood. Leggies a bit tired for the post run ride.

Summer Series debut at Pottery Green (Lane Cove). Ouch - hilly course for a first attempt at running fast for a while. Moved well for the first half hour, but faded a bit in the last 10-15min.

Discovered a creative way to lose time. Took a classic sydney short cut, thru' some dark green and down some cliffs - was congratulating myself on getting through as I jumped down the last cliff, only to have my pencil ripped out of my hand by the bush on the way down. Lucky to find it again, but took a couple of minutes digging in the scrub.

Bit of a route choice miss at the end - SS time/distance estimation is rusty - to finish on 480 (490 highest). Decent score would have been 530 odd.

Good fun, but SS not the same without Andy there.

C • End of Jan mate 4

Rode the Yeti in for some post New Cal love - it had a tough week. Ran in to a Prosser on Kent St - he'd commuted from Gosford!

First gym session in a while. Ouch.

Slow roll in. Felt crap. Think I was dehydrated. Southerly change overnight a welcome relief.

Nondescript ride home.