Training Log Archive: Saz

Ride into work, got a bit of a sleep in this morning which was nice.

Ride home past the bike shop to pick up a spare tube and a light.

Easy run around because I slacked off and took the dog to the beach last night instead of training.

Slowish ride in to work. Overtaken by the same girl except this time I realised she is just on a flat bar road bike it wasn't as demoralising.

And a bludge home into the wind and then with it for the last bit.

Quite a nice morning out on the river once my feet warmed up abit, starting to get cold in the mornings again.

Ride in to work. Got overtaken by a girl with flat pedals but then later on she slowed down so I had to go for the repass.

Ride home from work, overtook a few school kids dawdling along, then they re-overtook me chasing someone else and then I had to re-overtake them again as they slowed down 50m later.

Down near Collie Stockton Dam this time. Did 2 lots of 3 laps and have actually improved to the point where I feel reasonably comfortable out there.

Short ride around the river when we got back. Unfortunately couldn't fit the mt bikes in the car with all the other crap so didn't get to ride at Pile Road.

Got the mt bike out and saw that the front tire was quite soft. Spun the tire around and saw a double g, pulled it out and the tire went down. Lucky it held last weekend.

Paddled out into the easterly a km then back then another 3km into it and back, broke it up a bit. Arms felt ok but wasn't paddling very quickly.

Ride into work. Somehow I forgot to log all of Thursday, something to do with having to work late and then food shop.

Rode the short way home as I left work late and was running late.

Last weekend reminded me that I should be doing my core stability more often. 30 of each on each side.

Rode in to uni for a bike week breakfast, bacon and egg muffins and danishes yum! then a much slower ride in to work.

Slowish ride home, legs still a bit tired, wind was ok at least.

And this time I managed to upload my GPS trace and its fits nicely too :)

C • Ahh... 1

Ride into work, not too bad but legs were empty up the hills.

And back to my car, wind was strong in the city but not too bad the rest of the way.

Quads were sore and tired on the warmup, the right one was ok by the end but the left one was still sore.

3 x loops of blackboy walk
1 x hard uphills
1 x hard downhills
1 x hard all
4.17, 4.04, 3.46

Felt ok running just a bit tired overall but left leg was really tired by the end so I finished up and went home.

C • 3:46 3

Was not moving very quickly this morning so just rode the short way to work. Legs were ok riding in but fell apart when I tried walking to the kitchen to get my lunch. Shoulders, arms and legs are all sore and tired.

Was worried the ride home would suck but it was ok, slow but legs were ok and there wasn't a bad wind which was good.

Event: Boundless AR - KillaMetro
 

Peg Exercise
Definitely standing on the right side of the briefing for this exercise, ran over the hill and hadn't really been listening to the instructions so grabbed one pegs of each colour: blue, white, red.

Paddle
I had made the decision to only get the compulsory checkpoints. Went out with a nice lead and got the first one easy before anyone else then headed back upriver, had to stretch to get 2 but found it ok, continued up and got 3, 4 and 5 then back to TA.

Run
I had decided to get all the bonus controls too for this leg, headed out probably the wrong way as I didn't really understand the briefing and didn't want to get dq'd for going through out of bounds, 15 first which was ok once I got my bearings, then I got my compass out and took a badly followed bearing to 13, found 14 ok but stuffed around going to 16 as I couldn't work out what was roads and what wasn't then I couldn't work out which corner it was supposed to be on and ran to each before I saw it. Told myself to pull it together at this point and was ok to 17, saw 18 just as I was about to run past it and then had a little trouble at 19 finding other groups of 3 white trees, back past 18 to 12 which I had trouble with as it was on the ground under a tree and I thought it would be obvious,saw Juffy here as I was standing around, then 11and back the long way into the school.

Bike
Reasonable transition and off on the bike following the signs, got 20 ok just a bit early, then went the wrong way to 21 and had to backtrack around the lake, 22 was fine but then headed off the wrong way to 23 and had to back track, screwed up the bridge crossing and got caught by a heap of ppl including Juffy again, it was at this point I saw all the double g's in my tires but hoped they would hold out ... , got 23 ok and then went in with a big group to find 30, headed out to get 24 but riding along the road I knew it was over eventually pulled over at the end of the road to change the front tire, FIGJAM gave me a tube and I changed the front tire, about to leave and thought I'd better check the back - flat too BUGGER!!!, so got out my spare tube and changed it, Wally rode past at some point. Finally got them both changed and a bit of air in them then rode off being really careful where I rode, went past Juffy who'd broken his bike and got 24. Through the pseudo-path to 25 stressing about double g's then along the path with a detour the wrong way and a stuff around at the end to 26, another stop here to try and put some more air in my tires. Map board had well and truly come loose by now so I was reading the next bit and then putting it back which was painful. On the way to 27 Juffy overtook me again and then at the stairs tricky and another few people were there. Got 28 and 29 ok then back through the traffic, really glad that my tires had held up.

Orienteering
Couldn't be bothered changing shoes so I just took the helmet and gloves off and got out of there, legs felt ok but not fast nice touch going through the river 2 x but my shoes were already wet and gross from 27 so it didn't make much difference. Stuffed about a bit with the one upstairs but the rest were okay. Did a cool slide down the bank to the last control but Jen missed it.

Happy to finish! :)

Overall I was messy navigationally in the run and bike which was not helped on the bike by my map board coming loose this shows by how far behind the guys I was. Still pleased that I got through it and kept going after the flats as it was pretty demotivating and I know previously I might've just spat the dummy and chucked it in.

Easy ride to the servo to pump my tires up for the race and then to the BMX track for a bit of a play and then home.

30 of each on each side because I have been slack lately and need to do them more often!

A really slow ride in today, not really sure why.

And a reasonably hard ride home until canning bridge anyway.

Decided to try and get a shorter paddle in this morning as my final paddle prep for the weekend. Paddled up stream to Kent street weir, disturbed lots of sleeping birds on the way up.

Rode the shorter way in to work but I'm not sure how much shorter it ended up being, plus I was slacking off except when the I was riding with the easterly along the river.

Ride home from work, wind was ok which was nice :)

My quads were sore walking around today, at least it showed how much I pushed on the downhills last night.

Ride into work with the super strong easterly to begin with which made me feel like riding all then way to Rottnest, then I even considered paddling there might be ok, that was a scary thought.

The ride home was actually ok as there was a bit of a tailwind which was cool, still rather embarrassing when over the narrows a guy with his bike shorts pulled high, shirt tucked in and black dress shoes and socks went past me.

The ride home was actually ok as there was a bit of a tailwind which was cool, still rather embarrassing when over the narrows a guy with his bike shorts pulled high, shirt tucked in and black dress shoes and socks went past me.

C • double embarrassing 1

Short ride into work from McGillvray.

And a bit slower ride back to my car as I stopped by the servo to pump up my tires.

Longer warm up and a short cooldown.

Grassfarm reps, 3 x {jog back 3 mins recovery}

10.30 10.39 10.54
legs died by the last one

Quite warm still as the sea breeze was pretty weak.

Went for a run along the river because I have 4wd training and can't ride to work today, got eaten by mozzies again but legs felt pretty good.

Was meeting dad out at the camel farm for a mt bike so got there a bit earlier to do a run on the bib track. Pretty much all down hill on the way out meant a bit of a slog all the way back up the hill on the way back.

Took dad out on the single track from camel farm to the dell and then back along the road. Did pretty much all the obstacles on track today including a few I normally struggle to get over because I'm going too slowly. Legs were a little tired but not too bad.

Event: NavDash 2 - Brigadoon
 

Quite a nice morning for a paddle, pity there was lots of d!ckhead boat drivers out trying to run me over.

Nav Dash at Brigadoon, had a few problems with the scale and overrunning controls also with working out what contours mean again. Spent a lot of time running and hoping which worked ok but not great.

Made lots and lots of errors.

Also if someone technical could tell me how to upload my gps trace to routegadget that'd be good. I tried but the trace didn't seem to be the right way around which was weird. I exported the trace straight from garmin as a tcx, kml and gpx.

C • Ant Agent 3

C • GPX -> RouteGadget 1

Long - Splits

Really nice and calm on the river this morning. Pity it turned into a morning of mozzies feasting on sarah.

Felt slow and tired like everyone was overtaking me but still did a reasonable time.

And a very slow slog home into the stupid wind. Not really sure how slow as i had to stop at the bike shop on the way home. Bike still sounds like its going to fall apart at some point, its got that noisy I think it distracts people as they ride past.

Ride in to uni felt pretty good until just after Canning Bridge when my legs got tired, knew it was going to be a struggle home as the wind was strong already.

Long, slow slog home into the wind. Bleh.

Ride into work from Bold Park Pool, actually cold this morning riding down the hill from the pool.

Took it easy on the ride back to the pool, really strong sea breeze though.

Bit of a warmup then 6 run throughs and a short cool down after.

Not feeling very enthusiastic about time trial tonight because I'd only been to running once since last time. Still started out and I had a goal in front and my legs were feeling ok. Trying hard to hold on up durston and buggered by the time I finished.

Not a pb but not awful either considering how little running I've been doing. Goal now is to try and go each Tuesday then I might improve.

Very slow paddle. Into the wind is always really slow and hard and then when I'm with the wind it doesn't make me go that much faster which is a bit annoying.

Still at least I've got one more paddle in before killa and the boat is at home now so going to try and get a mid week paddle in.

Went out to Goatfarm, dad came along to get some mt biking practice before killa. Felt pretty good on the bike -much more confident than usual - finally all those weeks of regular mt biking seem to be paying off which is good.

We had a bit of a bike swap because my BF has just bought a giant reign which is apparently an 'all mountain' bike which means its a downhill bike pretending to be ok for cross country riding - it had massive suspension and stupid sram gearing so everytime I changed gears I'd change up instead of down and then have to stand up to pedal then I tried dads hardtail and its is so rigid and bumpy. Then I took my bike back and it was AWESOME!!!!

Ride over to Curtin for the Nav Dash. Really need to lube my chain as it was making really awful noises.

First sprint event of the season. Ran ok except for number 9 which I looked in the wrong place for then finally read my descriptions, 11 where I thought I there was a gap in the fence but there wasn't and 16 where I headed off towards the oval before realising I was on the wrong side of an uncrossable fence.

Was getting to the control circles fine but then stuffing around looking for the controls - something to do with very little orienteering practice.

Was followed by a guy for most of the course which was a bit of a worry considering I wasn't really navigating that well but it did make me try and run faster.

Course was tricky at the end especially when my brain was trying to turn off but just got there.

C • Brian 1

Slow easy ride home the short way though it was into the wind.

Long - Splits

Ride in to work, pretty good morning for it.

Rode home from work, the seabreeze was in a bit which was nice :)

Ride in to work.

Ride home from work, the seabreeze was trying really hard to come in but not really making much of an impression so it was still pretty warm. Roll on the weekend and only high 20's.

Rode in to work with a bit extra, lovely easterly to push me along initially.

And a slow ride home, warm but not as warm as it has been some arvos.

Ride in from Bold Park Pool to work - only got counted 7 times which was a bit disappointing I was aiming for double figures.

And back.

Warm up from Bold Park Pool then 4 terrain loops E,H,E,H with varying recoveries. Had other things on my mind and ran like crap.
Still at least I turned up.