Sunday Jan 27 |
 | Paddle (stagnate) 3:05:00 [1]10 km (18:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Green plastic tub |
| Support paddle for patrick's 10km qualifier swim for rotto. Had an interesting moment getting out through the break when i realised too late that i was in a boat that does not actually go forwards when you paddle it. But didn't fall off and, strangely, really enjoyed floating on the ocean, it was a lovely day and there was a lot to watch. The guys that won the 10km did so in just over 2hours! I had plenty of time to do maths and got a bit humbled when i realised they were averaging 36sec for 50m. My own 50m PB is 47s. Humph. Pat swam strongly and consistently and only started to zigzag a bit right at the end. Should be fine for the rotto swim, and will hopefully not do anything so silly again afterwards. |
| Run (study break) 47:25 [4]8.46 km (5:36 / km) | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| Ran from home through bold park, reabold and up the beach from city beach to floreat. Lots of sand and hills, great for frustration-venting. Ocean was fantastic and so was having a lift home! |
Saturday Jan 26 |
| MTB (fun fun fun) 2:40:00 [4]38 km (4:13 / km) | |
| shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct |
| Usual loop from the dell-blue tag-white tag-link-gungin-munda biddi to pickering brook then home via the stupid hill. Really good fun, nice reasonably even group (John, pete, steve, dalto, ricky and wil). Hot and dry though and has been for a month, so the pea gravel and dust is fairly deep. No longer fish-tailing in the gravel, because now it just makes you stop and sink. Came so close to making it up the stupid hill that i think it may be possible - stopped and restarted twice but didn't walk at all. Nice. Otherwise uneventful. Everyone else seemed to have events - i have been accused of using the evil eye to push people off their bikes. Met some typically bright downhillers- one wearing shin pads but no helmet. John riding too well now, i can't keep up on the ups OR downs any more. Only when he is upside down. |
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| C • Pah! 1 |
| MTB (social) 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct |
| With Vera and John from my parents' into kings park to watch the fireworks. Great night for it, and far more relaxed crowd than usual. Fireworks were shiny, as usual. Planes were pretty impressive. |
Friday Jan 25 |
| Roadie (commute) 1:02:00 [2]26 km (2:23 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| To work and back. Not keen today - had 4h sleep after a harrowing shift and started a new job this morning with a typically impatient surgeon. |
| Strength/Core (beach session) 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Feet |
| Only a few of us tonight - almost like other people have better things to do on a friday night. Felt good. Still trying to learn not to lead with my bottom when doing pushups. Ngaire came along for the first time and worked frighteningly hard but did not in the end need resuscitating and will probably come back. John motivated me by nearly letting me catch him on a couple of the runs and the sudden death cardio bit too |
| Run (beach session) 30:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Feet |
| Warmup plus all the runs between the other bits. |
Thursday Jan 24 |
| Roadie (pootle) 2:00:05 [3]51 km (2:21 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Mmm... luxuriant junk miles. Leisurely river lap with Ngaire - had a chat and even stopped for coffee! Nice. |
Wednesday Jan 23 |
| Roadie (commute) 30:50 [3]13 km (2:22 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| To work, with John |
| Roadie (commute) 31:00 [2]13 km (2:23 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Home from work. Stonking seabreeze and reluctant legs made it pretty uninspired. |
| Run long (trudge) 1:02:00 [3]10.5 km (5:54 / km) | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| Felt ok when i got home and thought i should be able to survive a long run, but the legs wouldn't play once we got going. Felt ok on the flat, just all numb and wobbly if i tried to push. Got through the first few hills, then got to the beach and the rest of the run was an exercise in bailing. Decided to run up the path rather than into the wind in soft sand. Met the others at Floreat then promptly bailed again and ran back to the pool. Fell asleep on top of the car while waiting for them.
I guess tired from intervals yesterday. Perhaps eating today would have helped. Or sleeping properly last night.
Guessing the distance because the GPS had a flat battery too. |
Tuesday Jan 22 |
| Roadie (commute) 44:50 [2]19 km (2:22 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Picked up car, took it home then rode to work. Took a bit longer than i though, first patient had eaten all the muffins in the waiting room by the time he came in.
Do I get 20 points for passing a skier? Not technically a bike, but he looked really really silly. Long skis with little wheels on, and he was using poles too, cruising along the bike path. Didn't have goggles on though, i hope he doesn't get snow blindness. |
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| C • Dry skier 4 |
| Roadie (commute) 1:17:00 [3]34 km (2:16 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Felt crap all day for staying in bed and missing the group ride, so i did the loop backwards after work. From the city around the river via Mosman Park to Freo, then flew back up the coast on the seabreeze to McGillivray for running. Hard to get going (hungry more than tired) but enjoyed it. |
| Run intervals 48:00 [4]8.6 km (5:35 / km) | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| Warmup/run throughs/cool down plus 4x1.5km at 5km pace, with 1-2min active recovery.
My target was 7.30 which i skirted around a bit:
7.01 7.29 7.09 7.24 (i think the first and third were faster because of doing more with the wind than on laps 2 and 4? or maybe i was just a bit erratic) Felt good, kept within the time and really really enjoyed dinner. Good bunch today - Jess and Will just up ahead were fun to watch, they had an epic battle of wills (haha) with Jess just dropping him on the last interval. Saz did it in bare feet again then disappeared in the middle. John did amazingly considering ongoing back spasms but that didn't stop him complaining ;)
There were also a lot of interesting groups on the oval to watch - female sprinters vomiting behind the toilet block, for example, and lots of novice tri girls going "eeeek" when the sprinklers hit them. (and no, i didn't notice any footy players in tight shorts yelling "mikemikemikemike oi oi oi wazzawazzawazza". none at all) |
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| C • Body Image 2 |
Monday Jan 21 |
| Roadie (commute) 16:00 [2]7 km (2:17 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| From car service place to work |
| Roadie (commute) 29:40 [2]14 km (2:07 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| to the pub then home |