Sunday Jul 20 |
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| Event: Teva Adventure Race
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 | Adventure Racing 3:45:00  | |
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| what a great day for orienteers! We dominated the podium, and i have had some quite surprising people showing interest now, so hopefully it was good publicity for orienteering. Good fun race- it felt easy after the Killamunda last week, especially with all the bits of standing around. I don't think the others felt the same way, they did an amazing job of running backwards and forwards while i stood around. Pete punched every single control, while we stood around looking at the map. John ran backwards and forwards from the dam with buckets of water so that pete could throw them on the ground. They both ran up and down while i gossiped in the corral with the other team, ahem, "leaders".
I did contribute though, i did the sudoku, and also hung onto pete on the running bits to slow him down so that john could keep up.
In between the standing around bits there was enough hard riding to wear me out. The nav was pretty smooth, thanks to john's usual map-reading magic, and pete was typically strong, strong, and more strong.
Really enjoyed it - good fun, with lots of short stages so it never got boring, and some good prizes too. I only wish there was a trophy, it would have stood out nicely on my second place "bridesmaid" trophy shelf.
Well done to everyone involved! Thanks to Pete and John for dragging me through it. Thanks to saz for the loan of the giant shoes! they fitted really well with 3 pairs of woolly socks. well worth it for the prize money.
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Saturday Jul 19 |
| Roadie (commute) 42:00 [2]18 km (2:20 / km) | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Into the city and then to east perth to paddle |
| Paddle 1:35:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Fenn XT |
| Nice sunny day but COLD. Never really warmed up. Steady paddle from soph's power station around the rubbish dump island and back. Apparently john, pete and steve were out there too somewhere |
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| C • Too fast 1 |
Friday Jul 18 |
| Armchair nav (map memory stuff) 30:00 [0] | |
| shoes: Comfy couch |
| Another session with the cz maps. Better this time but i still forget sometimes to use the contours. |
| Note | |
| slept:7.0 (rest day) |
| Planned a rest day today, and even booked my birthday massage for the same time as the beach session. Turned out to be the perfect day to miss it. Crappy weather. Picked up the shiny new team shirts too! |
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| C • Birthday? 2 |
Thursday Jul 17 |
| Roadie (commute) 26:38 [4]13 km (2:03 / km) | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Just seeing how fast i can do it without the tailwind |
| Roadie (commute) 30:00 [3]13 km (2:18 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Home |
Wednesday Jul 16 |
| Roadie (commute) 25:50  13 km (1:59 / km) | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Big tailwind today and legs felt happy so i went out hard, big chain ring, hunting down roadies, to see how much i could take off my PB. Smashed it by 1min 40! This doesn't bode well for the way home unless the wind changes |
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| C • Tailwind 2 |
| Roadie (commute) 48:00 [3]20.8 km (2:18 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Around the mulberry bush to running |
| Run long (Reabold loop) 54:00 [4]9.99 km (5:24 / km) | |
| shoes: Brooks trail shoes |
| Felt crap tonight but decided to start out strong and see if i could hold it. And did, sort of. Got really hungry halfway which was my main motivation to get back quickly. Hageby and john and stu kept up well, short new person less so, but he is very keen and will no doubt improve quickly. |
Tuesday Jul 15 |
| Roadie (Floreat Group) 1:18:00 [4]38.4 km (2:02 / km) | |
| slept:6.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Didn't really plan to ride but i got up when the alarm went off, and then got motivated to leave because the other option was to clean up the decapitated rat spread across the carpet in the lounge room. So i ejected John from bed (its his cat, after all, at least when she disembowels things) to clean up the entrails and went off in the rain. Rain stopped straight away though and the ride was quite nice.
The plan to sit inside the pack failed early on, when 5 of the 9 people turned out to be the chase group and disappeared. One of the other four peeled off in Freo and I lost the other two at the top of devils elbow (and there was no regroup, presumably because there was no group). Hard ride- it took half an hour for my legs to stop aching but after that i kept up ok. |
| Roadie (commute) 14:30 [2]6 km (2:25 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| To work, between 2nd and 3rd breakfastses. |
| Roadie (commute) 17:00 [2]7.5 km (2:16 / km) | |
| shoes: Mongoose Roadie |
| Halfway home, then i got rescued by a sympathetic passer-by. |
| Run intervals (sand reps) 56:18  9.84 km (5:43 / km) | |
| shoes: Feet |
| Warmup and cooldown, then 6x1km in the sand with 90sec recoveries.
Kept up with the boys on the first one, then dropped to my own pace and the rest were pretty even. Surprisingly ok given the ride this morning and sunday's effort. Missed the rain again.
5.09 5.25 5.23 5.30 5.27 5.24 |
Monday Jul 14 |
| Note | |
| slept:7.0 (rest day) |
| Luckily unable to train due to a long work day. Wouldn't have wanted to anyway. |