Training Log Archive: shanel

Event: Yetar Springs
 

A lot of slow and steady on the nav, vegetation was pretty hard going early on. Long leg from 5 to 6 I ended up hitting the road close to the finish than 6 and back from 7 to 8 I was further north than I thought, but worked out where I was OK. Completely bollocksed 9, took a couple of goes looking at where I was relative to the track to 10 before I eventually spotted it.

12-13 I ended up hitting 14 first, so had to double back to get 13

H2 - Splits

Event: UWA
 

Got clued into the map a bit quicker than normal, but had a few slightly to really dud route choices particularly to 14 and was looking in a stupid spot for 8.

Long - Splits

Darling Downs - Claremont

Had a launch failure this morning, put some bread in the toaster and then laid on the lounge and went back to sleep for a while, eventually got going again, reheated my toast, contemplated driving to work, decided that would be even harder than riding, so eventually got going.

Nice southerly blowing made for an easy trip up the freeway, hooked in behind someone on who came on at Mt Henry so did a bit of work with him. Glimpsed a Simmo like character from my spot hiding on a wheel, soon after Binnsey went past then fizzyred.

Got to work eventually.

Claremont - Darling Downs

Lateish ride home after a couple of post work beers.

Surprised to catch someone heading down the freeway who I could work with a little bit into the wind, but he turned off at Canning Bridge. Don't think I saw any other cyclists for the rest of the ride. Managed to avoid fading at the end, a bit of a tailwind may have helped.

Ayups I borrowed from Mark seem to provide adequate illumination so I better get organised and order my own.

After taking the kids to school in the morning I spent the rest of the morning trying to decide if I should go for a run, should I go long? maybe 15km? or do some washing? ans some dishes?

Eventually managed to waste most of the morning, then have lunch and still feel a bit lethargic, so only did a few more little things are the house.

I guess long term I'd planned on having an easy week after the rogaine, so I at least I mostly achieved that.

tRicky, Dalto and Wally.

tRicky pushed the pace a bit. I mostly sat behind somewhere but went to the front for a bit for the wind up heading down to Port Beach. That sat behind till I put in a short effort through Dalkeith, luckily tRicky wasn't aware that I'm meant to be left out the front till I die, so I didn't suffer too much.

tRicky and Dalto gapped us heading up past Andres' and I tried to get past Wally and close the gap, but failed to get in front of Wally, let alone close the gap.

I was going to lead out at UWA, but Wally went out first, so I just sat behind.

Wil and tRicky along for 1 double lap, first easy, second hard, 3 mins recovery, 1 hard, 3 mins, recovery another hard.

My legs were pretty dead from the start. The track pretty overgrown in places with extra low hanging branches. I think tRicky and Wil took a very slight shortcut off the oval to avoid the lowest of the trees of the track.

9:42, 9:55
9:51
9:51

Getting a bit dark on the last rep, so we may have trouble getting through many more sessions there.

Heaps slower than my best lap of 8:42 back in Oct, hopefully I'll have fresher legs next week, but still need to work out session for the next few weeks.

Ahh, I found the Toomsless Tues program from just before Fletch got bored of watching us run. So next week E, H, E, H (2 min rec). Then H, H, H, handicap for the third week. Ahh crap, that doesn't really fit with Tooms' advice of Anaerobic Threshold not hard with short/jog recoveries, but maybe it's close enough.

C • 7 laps??? 8