Training Log Archive: Tynomite

Went in my first Cyclogaine for ages, with Greg Morcom. I was a little nervous going with Greg, as i was told he has been a start Mountain Biker. It was great fun, and we chose a pretty logical route i think, opting to do the majority of the hills first off. We did a few extra controls then what we had planned early on as we were feeling pretty good, but this led to skipping three controls towards the end because of exhaustion and time constraint. But we got ten extra points more then our original plan. This put us into 4th place overall and 3rd mens team, being beaten by Lee and Sue Merchant, Brett Merchant and Andrew Slattery, and Ruhi Afnan and Bruce Greenhalgh. Brett and Andrew won the event, being 5 minutes late and only missing one control off the map. Suprisingly though the event was run concurrently with a 6 hour foot rogaine which got cleaned up by David Talbot and Ryan Cox in under 5 hours. What does that say about the cyclists on the rogaine??

Good fun day, followed by BBQ and excess quantities of cake.

One of the typical Belair night runs. I felt like i was a bit faster then usual, and i had Simon running with me for the majority of the time. It was a nice evening. I had to rush off to lose some kilos at the hairdresser.

Warm up to the loos and back via the Torrens, followed by cooldown around the track backwards after the intervals.

4x 400 with 200 recovery
95,103, 105, 102.
I blame the slower time then before on the headwind on the east bound side of the track.

There's nothing quite like a shit day at work to bring you down. And there's nothing quite like a group of freinds who push you despite a distinct lack of motivation. I like my friends a lot better then i like my work, even though i'm a grump they were happy to run with me.