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Training Log Archive: simmo

In the 31 days ending Oct 31, 2015:

activity

time

miles

Road cycling

29:40:46

428.06

(4:10)

688.9

(2:35)

Orienteering

1:48:47

6.52

(16:40)

10.5

(10:22)

Running

1:07:12

5.9

(11:23)

9.5

(7:04)

Total

32:36:45

440.49

(4:27)

708.9

(2:46)

2:23

0:00

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Friday Oct 30, 2015 #

Road cycling 2:11:25 [3] 51.2 km (2:34 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Very eventful ride today. Usual Friday ride around the river with PP, Richard and Chas, Noel joining us at East Fremantle.

On the path from Malcolm St alongside the Freeway a mountain bike (according to PP who was some way back, riding very dangerously down that narrow path) overtook me just before the underpass by cutting across the grass then jumping down the 1.5m wall at high speed and cutting the corner into the tunnel. Luckily, no commuters were coming the other way so carnage avoided.

Up the coast from Port Beach Richard and I were hammer and tongs pulling turns into a stiff Northerly. I think he was trying to drop me, but I wasn't having it. We dropped Noel, and PP and Chas took the Curtin Ave shortcut.

The Other Side was pretty crowded, but Nicole and Sandy had saved us a table. Muffin and coffee to usual standard.

At Shenton Park I took the road to avoid the maggie on the path, but the crafty bird was wise to that, and found a mate as well, with both swooping me several times for at least 3 hits on the helmet.

Finally dropped into Elite Racing Cycles to talk about my chain/cassette replacement, scheduled for Tuesday next.

C • Dropping 1

Thursday Oct 29, 2015 #

Road cycling 41:00 [3] 19.0 km (2:09 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Hard ride to Dad's at Bull Creek, wind from the WSW.

Road cycling 39:00 [3] 19.0 km (2:03 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Back from Bull Creek, the wind more in my favour, but more across than behind.

Wednesday Oct 28, 2015 #

Road cycling 2:07:10 [3] 48.5 km (2:37 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Around the river, breakfast at The Other Side. Avoided magpies in Shenton Park and Daglish by using the roads instead of the paths.

Tuesday Oct 27, 2015 #

Road cycling 1:31:41 [3] 35.2 km (2:36 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Bassendean ride, took a diversion to have a look at Ashfield Flats, then Point Reserve, then another diversion later to the bike shop.

Monday Oct 26, 2015 #

Road cycling 2:16:00 [3] 49.7 km (2:44 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Around the river, muffin at The Daily. Got swooped for the second time by a magpie on the Stubbs Terrace path just before Shenton Park station. He totally ignored PP and two riders coming the other way, but gave me a hard whack on the helmet - must be because it's red. So now there are two aggressive birds to look out for, one either side of Shenton Park station.

Sunday Oct 25, 2015 #

Road cycling 1:42:00 [3] 38.5 km (2:39 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

West Coast ride, pleasant morning if a little windy.

Friday Oct 23, 2015 #

Road cycling 2:23:00 [3] 57.0 km (2:31 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Around the river, left PP & Richard on the Freeway path to go around Mt Henry then chased hard into a solid SW headwind, but didn't catch them until The Other Side where they arrived less than a minute ahead.

Thursday Oct 22, 2015 #

Road cycling 1:30:00 [3] 33.0 km (2:44 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Bassendean.

Wednesday Oct 21, 2015 #

Road cycling 2:15:00 [3] 49.7 km (2:43 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Around the river with PP, breakfast at The Daily.

Tuesday Oct 20, 2015 #

Running 35:00 [3] 4.0 km (8:45 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Road-X 255

Started out on Kings Park short run, but L calf tightened up, so walked back to Hale Oval then did alternate laps jogging slowly and walking on the grass.

Monday Oct 19, 2015 #

Road cycling 1:24:00 [3] 35.0 km (2:24 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Bassendean ride - windy.

Sunday Oct 18, 2015 #

Road cycling 2:12:30 [3] 47.5 km (2:47 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Around the river then up Curtin Ave instead of the coast. Breakfast at The Other Side.

Friday Oct 16, 2015 #

Road cycling 2:22:00 [3] 57.0 km (2:29 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Friday round the river ride with a group of just me. When Richard wasn't at the Narrows I decided to include Mt Henry. Z. muffin at The Other Side.

Got swooped by a very persistent magpie on the Daglish side of the Shenton Park subway - hit me at least 3 times but I hope my helmet did him some damage.

C • Maybe I got LOST 2

Thursday Oct 15, 2015 #

Road cycling 1:25:00 [3] 35.4 km (2:24 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Bassendean ride - headwind on the return, then called in at Elite Cycles.

Tuesday Oct 13, 2015 #

Running 32:12 [3] 5.5 km (5:51 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Road-X 255

Kings Park Tuesday run, shorter than short lap. Bit sobering to have Fenry run past me just before the finish having run the long lap almost 5 minutes quicker.

Monday Oct 12, 2015 #

Road cycling 2:14:00 [3] 50.0 km (2:41 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Around the river - first zucchini muffin (at The Daily) for several weeks was good. While I've been away they've started and made substantial progress on completing the missing section of the Stubbs Terrace bike path - hooray!

Saturday Oct 10, 2015 #

Road cycling 1:22:00 [3] 35.0 km (2:21 / km)
shoes: Bike: Beemer Auto

Bassendean ride.

Thursday Oct 8, 2015 #

Road cycling 1:25:00 [3] 28.2 km (3:01 / km)
shoes: Bike: Bianchi Coast to Coast

Coldstream Hills ride. Good to be back on a bike, now can't wait to ride the Beemer on Saturday.

Monday Oct 5, 2015 #

Orienteering race 41:15 [4] 3.8 km (10:51 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 2nd pair

Australian Relays at Borhoney Ghurk. Made a 90 degree error at the start and ended up further from no.1 than the triangle. From then on I was playing catch up, trying to go hard to see if I could move through the field, but inevitably making a couple of errors. Finally caught sight of Victoria, Qld and ACT teams walking up a steep hill to 8, and had almost latched on by the spectator control 9, but I had to stop for a drink, then when I started off again I suddenly felt very tired and had to walk for a bit. Just after I started running again I tripped and fell heavily (another sign of fatigue, not lifting my feet enough). Vic and Qld had disappeared but I just managed to stay close to ACT up the finish chute. Quite surprised that, although SA had skipped out to a 3 minute lead, I was only a couple of minutes behind 6 or 7 other teams.

SA's 2nd runner came in, then after 4-5 minutes ACT gaining several places, and about a minute later Russell C in 3rd. I thought it was entirely possible that Ian F could haul them in, and sure enough he punched the last control about 20m before ACT. He looked tired coming up the chute but just managed to hang on for a one-second win! Fabulous - atones for my mispunch at home in WA last year. Russell was the real hero though - well done!

Note

Appears to be a glitch in AP: it won't let me load the report above with a October 4 date.

Saturday Oct 3, 2015 #

Orienteering race 56:14 [4] 4.8 km (11:43 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 2nd pair

Australian Long Distance Champs at Chapel Flat near Ballarat. The first 2/3 of the course were in slowish spur/gully with a fair bit of climb. Was reasonable to 4 but knew lots of guys would be going faster than me. From 4 onwards we were in gold mining, which I thought was over-mapped compared to Alex T's style, and lost 1 min on a couple of controls (5 and 7) then 3 mins at 8. 17th today, but only a minute covering the 4 guys just ahead of me. Winner took 47:36 but my impression of the course was that someone should do it in well under 45; Carolyn Jackson won W55 in 45:44, with Anthea (with a heavy cold) 48:06.

Friday Oct 2, 2015 #

Orienteering race 11:18 [5] 1.9 km (5:57 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 2nd pair

Australian Sprint Champs at St Patricks College, Ballarat. Didn't expect to retain my title given this is my last year in M65 and a strong field, but managed to get 2nd and could have won but for a mistake near the end. Despite my lack of race fitness was able to keep the pace up for 11 mins, and seemed to be able to run as fast as anyone else. Had to stop at several controls to see where/how to get to the next one. Small area, with lots of circles and numbers and many turns/crossovers.

Quite pleased with this result.

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