Training Log Archive: Mounty

Headed out from Elvina Bay with a rough plan of heading south and seeing what happened. Grunty start as usual straight up the narsty hill, out to West Head Rd, along the Centre track then on to the Terrey Hills perimeter track. Made a bit of a mess cutting across to St Ives - missed the Ryland ridge track, so changed plans and aimed for a firetrail I could see on google maps. Feeling rather good and enjoying myself so far.

Crossed Mona Vale Rd only to discover that said firetrail came off the back of a private estate, so I was a bit stuck. Admitted defeat, and turned back for the Duck Holes track in McCarrs. Not a bad call in the end, as it became clear it was still a decent hoik to get home. Pretty knackered for the last hour, and running a bit ploddy.

Home for chocolate, and an afternoon tooling around in boats.

Random collection of ski paddles, using it for transport and tooling around with kidlets on the guppy.

Katrin convinced me to tag along for Deano's friday morning session (and grandpa to babysit). Seemed like a good idea until the alarm went off at 4:50am. Mumbled a few times on the drive down something along the lines of "this is stupid" .

On the water with about 15 skis, dark for the first 20minutes until the most obscenely nice sunrise thru' the heads made me grudgingly admit 'twas rather nice to catch it out on the water.

Did 2min efforts from Balmoral to Manly, with 1min's on the way back. Cheated every few intervals by jumping on a wash, else would have popped before the end.

Lunch spin around the Balls Head, Gore Creek loop to burn off last night's dinner of 3L of beer and a pretzl. While said dinner brought back fond memories of the old Munich days, it made the run somewhat more of a struggle than usual.

Snappy ride, lengthened by the traffic light gods.

Early morning lap of Narrabeen lake. Started with a beautiful sunrise, that quickly turned in to a blinding headlight for a few minutes, then a pleasant lap of the lake. Have forgotten the exact loop to avoid the shallow bits - got bogged down in shallow water a few times.

Drinking coffee beans from Aldi this week. Suprisingly not too bad.

C • Narrabeen 4

Rather sprightly ride for a monday morning. Probably a combination of glorious autumn morning + back to the home coffee machine.

Snappy ride home, with a surge up Crown hill in the search for lactic acid.