Training Log Archive: Middleditch

Dusted off the old road bike for its first outing since 2010. Disappointingly my cycling ability has failed to magically improve during this intensive rest period and I still got dropped every time we hit any kind of gradient. An awesome summer evening to be out though.

Forced myself to wake up for a 5km race at Jack's Point as punishment for a bad night at the casino.

Intervals at the grass track.

Run along the Arawata and Sunshine Bay tracks from home.

Run up Skyline from home.

I bottled out of the early morning run along the Routeburn Track with the Wellington crew because it was: 1. early; 2. the morning; 3. a run. On the positive side I was honoured by another visit from my favourite Jehovah's Witness who, this time, brought along backup. In a double-whammy tag team stylee, one attempted to reconcile science and religion while the other frantically searched the bible for confirming passages. I was almost convinced, right up until the surreal moment where two middle aged men wearing shirts and ties looked me straight in the eye and told me that they believed that Jonah actually lived in a giant fish.

Interval session along the lake with the Qtown runners where Posh and Becks showed the locals who's boss.

Downhill mountain biking from Remarkables ski field to Lake Wakatipu.