Sunday Mar 30 |
 | Roadie (commute) 1:14:00 [3]36 km (2:03 / km) | |
| slept:6.5 shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| To kings park, 3x figure 8's then had breaky with grandma and rode home. She challenged me to do another lap of the park in the time it took her to walk from zamia to winthrop ave. It was a close one but i managed the win without having to run her over. |
| MTBO (training) 1:12:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct |
| Made up a short course at Langford Park and did some route choice practice. Lesson for the day is, it is rarely quicker to ride single track unless it is very significantly shorter. This applies to championship races only, because if you don't need to win then the extra fun is always worth the slower time. Had a play on some of the better trails out the back, practicing my route choice down the downhills. |
| MTB (intervals) 42:00 [2]13 km (3:14 / km) | |
| shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct |
| Met up with the ambos plus Ngaire and Robin for a night ride. We did a lap of the 12h track first, which took 1h40min! 42min ride time. It became an interval session, riding hard hard for 3min to keep up with cris who was on a mission, then stopping for 5 to wait for the slowies. Namely Scotto, who forgot his helmet light so could only see in straight lines (great for single track) and some other guy who was really unfit. Ngaire rode excellently for a first night ride, and smiled the whole time. Good fun. |
| MTB (fun fun fun) 48:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct |
| The others went off on the short loop and i did a longer and much more solid ride with Cris and Pete, skipping most of the 12h loop (which is quite boring) and did all the fun technical bits from the old days. Some bits were quite deep in honky nuts which was interesting- sort of like riding through the ball pit at ikea. Teeth-clenching stuff keeping up with those two on the downhills- lucky i have the new lights. And luckily did not break anything, John would probably not be impressed (and neither would my dad, who is our reserve for the keen race). |
Saturday Mar 29 |
| Note | |
| slept:8.0 (rest day) |
| No even i can't justify logging putting out and collecting controls for a sprint event, or running around the block with the dog. Or carrying a boat around optimistically on top of my car but never getting it wet. Life got in the way today. |
Friday Mar 28 |
| Roadie (commute) 1:02:00 [2]26 km (2:23 / km) | |
| slept:6.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| To work and back. |
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| C • Joondalup Sprint 4 |
Thursday Mar 27 |
| Paddle 50:00 [3] | |
| slept:6.0 shoes: Fenn XT |
| Meant to have a rest day but slept horribly so i had some extra time before work. Paddled hard into the strong easterly from matilda bay, then cruised back. |
Wednesday Mar 26 |
| Roadie (commute) 32:00 [2]13 km (2:28 / km) | |
| slept:6.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Slept badly due to dreaming about Ocad. So i gave up at 6am and did some Ocadding instead. Ocadding is not as fun as sleeping, although i did have a little smile when i inserted my boulder cluster from the weekend. |
| Roadie (commute) 29:00 [2]13 km (2:14 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Home with the tailwind |
| Run long 1:50:00 [3]18 km (6:07 / km) | |
| shoes: Metallic blue Asics |
| I had to be John for Wil tonight in the absence of John, which was good, forced me to do a long one. Ran with Hags to John's parents' to get the car, drove to the pool, ran around the golf course to drop off the dog at home. Then grass strips to the dog beach, up the beach to city beach, up Oceanic, over Reabold, over the limestone terrain loopy bit and back to the pool. Nice slow steady pace so it didn't hurt too much. Calves tight from the sandhills. |
Tuesday Mar 25 |
| Roadie (commute) 34:00 [2]13 km (2:37 / km) | |
| slept:8.5 shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Feeling really crap again (sore throat etc. I have to stop hanging around sick people) so i skipped the group ride and rode very slowly into work instead. |
| Roadie (commute) 29:00 [2]13 km (2:14 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Home with the tail wind |
| Run hills (SAS sandhill) 12:29 [5] | |
| shoes: Brooks trail shoes |
| Oh yeah i love sandhill reps! Actually the SAS hill (although steep and evil) is not as steep as the ones at Myalup where you needed to use hands as well to get up. So it was ok. Big group today but they were all very very fast or very slow so i was all alone. Haggles joined me for half a rep before realising what a silly exercise it was.
2 sets of 3 reps with 30sec rest between reps and 3min between sets.
2.00 2.06 2.07
2.09 2.05 2.02
Legs all wobbly afterwards but felt good. |
| Run warm up/down 22:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks trail shoes |
| Warm up and down from reabold |
Monday Mar 24 |
| Run (dog jog) 45:00 [3] | |
| slept:7.5 shoes: Brooks trail shoes |
| John woke up early today and was really keen to do some training so we ran with Haggles to the beach, did 30sec on / 90sec off to the end of the dog beach and back, quick swim then ran home. |
| Walk (mapping) 2:30:00 [0] | |
| shoes: Brooks trail shoes |
| Pottered around Minim Cove for most of the morning then spent twice as long wrestling with Ocad. I felt good until i was told that, no, you don't get much faster with experience, it will always be this frustrating. I thought that Minim cove wouldn't have a uni campus-style rate of change, but since i was there a month ago they have set fire to patches of green stuff (turning them into bare rocky ground), pulled up carefully drawn significant trees, built playgrounds, all sorts of crazy goings-on.
I went home for a lie-down after i got frighteningly excited by a small stream and a boulder cluster. Don't want to turn into a weirdo orienteer just yet. |