Training Log Archive: armada

Did a ride from home and around mt henry and canning bridges and back home again, with peter after he had done his big 60km ride. Had my nobblies on so knew it would be a good workout. Started of really slow with a wind at our faces first half but averaged roughly 25km/hr down the home stretch with still a little bit of headwind. the wind was confusing this moring. Happy with the time after my dismal performance in augusta for only 11km

Did a Jillian Michaels workout video at home, not quite sure if i'm happy to be fully on my ankle since rolling it on the weekend.

What a crazy wind straight into my face this morning, just had a go at peter for not warning me that i would be riding into winds that would sap the life out of me. Had a look on seabreeze and saw that i had winds around 23-27 knots and the gust got up to around 31knots, so i dont feel so bad doing such a crappy time. And just to top it my damn seat post decided it wasn't going to stay up and fell about a inch durning the ride. Considering i'm still recovering from the weekend i'm ok with it. Should have a nice wind behind be this afternoon.

I think I've finally discovered why my riding hasnt improved very much in the last six months, my seat was all the way to the bottom, why i didnt see this earlier is beyond me, but my seat was really loose this afternoon and every 200m was having to lift it back up again. Dont know the little bits on my bike and called peter a asked him how to fix it, turns out this this little knob on the seat that tightens it. Fixed it and suddenly blitzed the rest of the ride home. Felt easy as well usually get home tired but felt absolutely awesome, now i know why i felt so crap for the ride on the weekend in augusta.

First leg of the Anaconda familiarisation weekend, and I discover that I really really hate beach running. Stuck at the back with the sweepers for most of the run, and the on the bush half of the leg got lost with a sweeper and another runner, those little tags on the bushes weren't visible enough. Second half of the leg was much easier than the first half, got a lot of beach training to do.

Because the cut had no water in it the race organisers decided that the mini kayakers were going to stay in the river. Quite windy the entire way up to the river mouth but absolutely hellish on the way back. Balance was never a problem but boy was it a tough paddle. Had to stop a couple of times because the pedals kept falling out of their position as i pushed on them. And the still broken rudder from when peter used it on the Avon Decent didn't help either.

Because the swimmers for the mini and the main anaconda were starting together, rather than doing the exact course that we'll do on the day, we walked part the way down the beach towards the cut, hopped in the water and swam from roughly 750m from our finish point. first time wearing my own wet suit and discover that hair and velcro do not mix. Ripped half my hair out every time i turned to breathe. And had a really crappy pair of goggles so could actually see where i was going the whole time, eventually took them off and did some backstroke. Also got to see a sting ray during the swim, there are some advantages to doing this stuff :-)

really disappointed with how i went with this leg. I was tire because it was the last leg of the day, but discovered and short way in that my seat was way too low but peter had tightened the seat so much that i couldn't do much about it. Could not get the power in my legs with the seat so low, so was not very happy. On a funny note came in and discovered only about a half dozen riders for the mini leg had arrived the rest, including my friend Leigh decided it was fun to get lost and do the main 32km course. She managed to fit in the giant hill before she discovered she was going the wrong way.