Training Log Archive: Rob1280

Nothing too exciting

Just got dropped by front bunch after second lap, really worked hard to stay there, but we over did it, and never found a good rythm after that. In the non.stop apollo with Jane.

1 lap easy, 6 x 4min, 2 laps to finish. First time in our non.stop boat. Looking forward to racing.

Really my first competitive race in a mixed, so i was a little nervous going in. But everything turned out fine. Race with Brain, Cobus and Nicky. See brian's comment here http://ar.attackpoint.org/log.jsp/user_7113.

The first 6 legs, were pretty much like a sprint race, all very short and fast with some of the half distance teams getting involved, no one could make a good break here. We managed to get a gap eventually when olympus made a nav error. The heat was killing us through the day, very little cover from the sun out in the free state.

As the sun went down, i started to suffer from low sugar levels, and then ate too much, and through the next 25km paddle, suffered with very high sugar, this lasted for around 4hrs of the race, before i got it sorted, this meant i was the weakest on what should have been a strong leg for me. I made sure i dressed warmly for the paddle, so where the others suffered in the cold i was ok.

As Brian mentions, the long 26km hike was our worst leg. Hard to say what our issues were, the cold didn't much, everyone was falling asleep, even though we hadn't really over done ourselves during the day. We finished that leg in really poor condition, but sat down, ate up, drank up and chatted to the 3 teams following us into transition and left there a lot more motivated than the rest of the race, with some more good team work we put some good time into the chasing teams to secure our lead into the finish.

It wasn't the most exciting race, but the main highlights were swimming across a channel just as the sun was rising, taking a cool down dip in a canel, racing with some good friends with good team spirit, having a solid race, meeting new people, finding jumbo's as race snacks, not being towed on my bike, explaining that i don't ride tubeless to 3 converts, racing under such clear night skies with a super bright moon, reaching cp18 before stephan had placed it..., i hope that's enough to justify this sport.

Double moon was the wrong name, it should have been called, 'fence gate fence 250km AR" it's just a more accurate description, as we saw a whole more gates and fences than moons.

Basically a dusi tt plus a few 1000m intervals. In 'The Rush' with Jane.

Easy tt

Worked up a good sweat, with a few longer intervals towards the end.

Tough route over northcliff. Took a long time to warm up, started feeling good at the bottom of northcliff, ran well from there to the finish at a comfortable pace.

2000's, most of them individual aside from the sub 9min ones.
9.06
8.50
8.54
9.33
9.11
9.25
9.03
Not the most consistent session, but a hard one.

Had a great run, paced myself well. Past hayward with 3km, to go and it gave me some good motivation. Definitely a pb.

C • Good pace! 2

Easy morning run, from the dam, along the parkview golf course, then up over melville koppies east and around marks park.

Quiet tt in the k2 with Jane, only one other boat to work with. Everyone else is down at dusi. Had some good pulls.

15min warm up, 30 x 1min on/1min off, 15min warm down.

7 x 4min, with 2 laps warm-down, in the k2 with jane and correl in his k1 playing coach.

Easy tt on tired legs, happy that nothing is injured...

Not the greatest run today, didn't find a comfortable rythm, eating was ok, but suffered from stomach cramps towards the end of the race. Was my first marathon, so happy to get it under the belt, hopefully 2oceans goes a little better.

Couldn't resist an evening paddle, sunset was awesome, and we saw some fighter jets flying over in formation.

Great river level, in the k2 with jane, won the k2's in a very weak field. No swims, looking good for nonstop.

Rain stopped play early...

Run with Stu & Jane. Comfortable pace

Solid warm up with Luke.

Run with Steph and Alex. Felt good, didn't push too hard, right calf is a little tight, possibly from running with the boat yesterday.

Marks park loop and through the park with the k2.

Paddled with Jane. Race was cancelled after first lap due lots of lightening. We were going pretty well, on front bunch of the k2's (it was a k1 race though, so field not so strong). Worked really hard of the start to get onto the wave.

Raced with Wiehan,Danie & El. Mtb was not so great, very technical, with lots of hike-a-bike, maps did little justice to the terrain, no significant land marks to go by. We didn't collect all the op's but had a good training session.

Chilled evening swim.

Quite a few club digs runners this morning, around 15. Comfortable pace.

Ride with Mat and Simon, down the spruit to the pwc bike park and back.