Wednesday Feb 6 |
 | Run warm up/down 15:00 [2] 2.5 km (6:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| Very slow plod to the golf course and back |
| Run race (5km time trial) 23:39 [5] 5 km (4:44 / km) vdot: 40.9 | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| Missed the run last night (took advantage of being strangely motivated to study) so did the time trial this morning instead. Much cooler, must have been only 30deg and 95% humidity haha. I started on the home side of the golf course which put the durston hill much earlier but meant i finished on the long slow empire hill. So i don't know if its quicker that way but definitely not quick enough to make up for more than a min off my PB so i'm pretty happy with that time! |
| Roadie (commute) 33:00 [2] 13 km (2:32 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Possibly my slowest commute ever, partly because i took a wrong turn (! - guess i haven't done that route often enough). Perhaps a bit tired. |
| Roadie (commute) 35:00 [3] 14 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| To parents' to meet john then to the midweek event |
| Orienteering race (midweek event) 31:00 [5] 5.9 km (5:15 / km) | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| Oooh dear... ran well and nailed the first 3/4. Then the wheels fell off in a small playground. Its amazing how lost you can get (well, i can, anyway) in a very small area. Ended up visiting 3 controls twice, as well as two that i didn't need to go to, trying to resurrect the whole thing but left one out altogether so still dnf'd. Despite going about 1km further and to 5 more controls than everyone else. Just doesn't seem fair! |
| Roadie (commute) 15:00 [5] 6 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Trying to keep up with pete and john on their mountain bikes. Pete passed and dropped me when i was doing 46 down mts bay road. Just doesn't seem fair! |
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Tooms' Golf Course 5k TT - Splits |
Tuesday Feb 5 |
| Roadie (Floreat Group) 1:17:00 [4] 39.7 km (1:56 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Had a bit of a slow start this morning, waiting for Tooms who put his shoes on the wrong way around, then had to go back inside twice: once to take the water bottle off his bike and put it back in the kitchen, then again to lock his keys inside. Or something. Breathed a big sigh of relief when i made it past where i flatted last week, and then past all three of my previous bailing points from other recent efforts. Got dropped at Freo, managed to hammer along tydeman and catch them. Luckily McCabe quite slow today so i got a good rest before the hills and stayed with the group on them, yay! Tooms was still nowhere to be seen, i think he'd taken the short cut with sarah. Boltboi just behind me until he did the token repass move just before the regroup, so everyone would think he beat me. Pushed hard through dalkeith, jumped behind the second group in the sprint and passed them right at the end for 3rd place :) Or perhaps i actually won because the two punters in front i think might just have been commuters who we'd caught up with - they were a bit old to have been with the group, and quite funny-looking.
Oh and then i bailed to get to work, pulling a semioptimal reverse-indicating manouevre which nearly took out Boltboi, and then the entire group. Oops... |
| Roadie (commute) 1:05:00 [2] 26 km (2:30 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| To work 1 then to work 2 then home. |
Monday Feb 4 |
| Roadie (commute) 29:00 [3] 13 km (2:14 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| To the pool then to work. Would have been slower had i not been chasing roadies again - legs really sore and reluctant to move, i think from all the silly lunges in pump |
| Swim (social) 30:00 [2] 1.35 km (22:13 / km) | |
| shoes: Feet |
| Met my sister at the pool for a chat, with intermittent token laps. I'm quite proud of now being faster than her, although she feels that being less aerodynamic (ie, 7 months pregnant) is an excuse. Soft. |
| Roadie (commute) 26:00 [3] 11 km (2:22 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| From work to pub to parents' |
Sunday Feb 3 |
| MTB (Sunday stroll) 1:40:00 [2] 12 km (8:20 / km) | |
| shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct |
| Took John's sister and dad on a novice lap of jarrahdale. Really good fun, Caitlin is an absolute natural. Rides like a cat - really relaxed on the drops and jumps (in a way that the rest of us spend months practicing) and when she falls off seems to land running. She said, she didn't know how to control the bike so just had to let it do what it wanted. Freakish. John's dad didn't land running but he comando-rolls well. |
| Run 43:00 [3] 7 km (6:09 / km) | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| With Vera. Floreat beach-bold park pool-reabold-city beach-back to floreat for a swim. Still really hot, even when we stopped at 7.30pm so it was a bit of a plod. |
Saturday Feb 2 |
| Run warm up/down 15:00 [2] 2.8 km (5:21 / km) | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| Warmup before the gym
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| Strength/Core (pump) 1:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| With Vera. Always decrease your weights when doing pump for the first time in more than 6 months. Ouch. Saturday morning group fitness junkies are a truly strange subculture. |
| Roadie (commute) 35:00 [3] 17 km (2:04 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Finally got the new tyres on and tried them out on the way to the metro series. HOT today, and John made me push hard to humiliate some roadie. |
| Orienteering race (metro series) 40:20 [5] 7 km (5:46 / km) | |
| shoes: Retro green Asics |
| Guessing the distance - it should have been about 2km and 10min shorter. Stupid orienteering... Picked an OK route, and did fine until the last two controls. Misread a piece of fence with a track behind it as a gate, so had to do a massive backtrack. Then on the way from the last control to the finish i switched off my brain, decided not to waste time refolding the map or thinking at all, because i only had 200m to go, then ran at random in the wrong direction. Twice. Only did it because i don't think Boltboi's fragile sense of self-worth could withstand another beating. Finished 9th in the end, 2nd girl - 30s behind Erin, who ran straight to the finish while I was doing my inane circles in the bush. Can't complain really.
Lesson for the day is, don't be so stupid. |
| Roadie (commute) 40:00 [4] 18 km (2:13 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Pushed REALLY hard on the way back home, but still averaged about 24 into the seabreeze. Still hot hot so stopped at the beach for a much enjoyed swim. |
Friday Feb 1 |
| MTB (commute) 1:05:00 [3] 22 km (2:57 / km) | |
| shoes: Crusty Malvern Star |
| To work and back. Didn't get away until almost 8 so missed the beach session. I think that 5 shoulder reconstructions after lunch made up for at least the pushups. |
Thursday Jan 31 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Doubly luxurious rest day because not working either. 7 hours of reading anatomy and half a packet of chocolate biscuits later and i would rather have trained. Cat slept on the chair next to me the entire time. Rolled over twice. Alright for some... |