Saturday Jul 28 |
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| Raid The North |
| Adventure Racing race 17:00:00 [4] | |
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| Not sure of the official time for this. Overall the race wasn't too bad, but a flat tire on the bike followed by a missed turn and an extra 14 k of biking basically knocked us out of the race. Course was too short after that to really make any time back. Sounds like this race was a bit of a disaster from a race organizers side of things. Felt bad for my sister who helped us support and had to see a lot of that. Still she had a good time and said she'd come back to help us again. The team raced really well together, with me being the slowest on foot by far. Too bad there was so much running and hardly any trekking. Ended up fourth overall, was disappointed I think because I'd been expecting a much longer race and being done so early left you feeling you'd missed out on something.
That said Geoff may be on to something. With all the teams finishing during the Saturday evening it made for a nice social atmosphere after the race. We could then some sleep before the drive home the next day. He could move the post race meal from dinner to a greasy breakfast, do the awards by 10 and we're on the way home. |
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| C • Team 4 |
Wednesday Jul 25 |
| Cycling warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
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| Warmup before the race. |
| Cycling race 55:00 [4] | |
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| Overall I took it easy on this one. Went out hard the first lap and was able to stay with the leader until the second hill, he pulled away at that point and I shut it down to enjoy the next two laps. |
Monday Jul 23 |
| Stretching 20:00 [1] | |
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Sunday Jul 22 |
| Cycling long 3:00:00 [4] | |
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| Nice ride out to King's rd and back with EJ. Great headwind on the way out really forced us to work the pace line back and forth. |
Saturday Jul 21 |
| Running 45:00 [3] | |
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| Run along the waterfront after watching the TT. |
Thursday Jul 19 |
| Weights 1:00:00 [1] | |
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Wednesday Jul 18 |
| Cycling warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
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| Warmup before the race at King. |
| Cycling race 55:00 [4] | |
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| Pretty weak race. Legs had nothing in them, so just focused on really attacking the hills hard and making sure I was always looking far ahead on the single track. |
Tuesday Jul 17 |
| Running intervals 12:00 [5] | |
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| Speed intervals, 2 min hard, 4 min recovery, times 6. |
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| C • 5 |
| Running 20:00 [3] | |
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| Warm up. |
| Running 28:00 [2] | |
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| Time inbetween intervals and cool down. |
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| C • Interval Training 5 |
Monday Jul 16 |
| Cycling 1:15:00 [3] | |
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| Nice morning ride along the waterfront. |
Saturday Jul 14 |
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| Dukes Cycle Summer Epic 8 Hour |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
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| Warm up. |
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| C • Belated Congratulations! 1 |
| Running hills 12:00 [5] | |
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| Consists of trying to run a number of different hills in the area, time on the hills ranged from some slower ones that take 1:30 to climb and a very steep one that only takes 30 s to climb. Guess this is one of the problems of living by the lakeshore, quite flat. |
| Running 43:00 [2] | |
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| Time inbetween hills and cool down run home. |
Friday Jul 13 |
| Cycling 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| Ride to work. |
| Cycling 1:25:00 [3] | |
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| Ride home from work. |
Wednesday Jul 11 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
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| Light run before work. |
| Cycling warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
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| Warm up before the race. |
| Cycling race 55:00 [5] | |
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| First two laps went really well, but by the third lap I was by myself so it was much harder to really push it. |
Tuesday Jul 10 |
| Weights 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Running warm up/down 15:00 [3] | |
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| Warm up. |
| Running intervals 12:00 [5] | |
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| Intervals. 2 min at full intensity, 4 min at a slow job, times 6. Wow is it ever hot out. |
| Running 29:00 [2] | |
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| Time in between intervals and cool down. |
Monday Jul 9 |
| Cycling 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| Ride to work. Legs feeling tired this morning, took a fair bit of time before I felt smooth on the bike. |
Saturday Jul 7 |
| Adventure Racing race 5:10:00 [4] | |
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| ARC Enduro up at Bracebridge. Another great course from Bob Miller. Started out well for the first 5 minutes, then missed the turn off for the snow mobile trail. Since we were leading (shocking) everyone else just followed up. Ended up turning back and getting on course again, had to catch a number of teams from there in the rest of the trek. The remaining trekking points were fine and we pulled out of the trek in first place with about a 3 minute lead. From there we were able to bike really well and apparently our lead was roughly 20 min at the end of the bike. Paddle was unexciting until we started to pull away from the portage and realized we'd dropped the SI unit. I had to run back to almost the start of the portage to pick it up (sitting on the ground in the middle of the road). Lucky for us no one was close so it didn't affect the race after all. Good push by NJ and EJ to make it two in a row for them.
Lots of fun. |
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| C • nice job. Glad to hear that it... 1 |
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| C • you should have ridden buckwal... 3 |
Thursday Jul 5 |
| Cycling 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| Another good night down at Kelso with EJ. |
Wednesday Jul 4 |
| Stretching 20:00 [1] | |
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| Good morning stretch instead of short run since my legs were really sore/tight. |
| Cycling warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
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| Warm up before the race. |
| Cycling race 57:00 [5] | |
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| Felt really tired going into tonight so I wasn't sure what to expect. Had a good first and third lap. Second lap was definitely slower. |
Tuesday Jul 3 |
| Weights 1:00:00 [1] | |
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Monday Jul 2 |
| Cycling 3:00:00 [3] 80 km (2:15 / km) | |
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| Morning ride up to King Rd with Tyson. We travelled up Isslingtion then over to Weston Rd. Took Weston Rd home. |
| Running 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| Followed the ride with a run along the waterfront. Lots of great scenery to help pass the time. Poor Tyson had to slow down to my speed for the run. |