Training Log Archive: Timato

Had originally planned to ride 160 km, but for the first two hours I felt just aweful including feeling sick. Decided on the way back to limit it to the normal 110 km ride.

Road into work. Legs were sore on the uphills, but not too bad.

Ride home from work.

Skipped the hill workout because my legs were to sore, ended up working late so no time for a run.

Early run before work.

Warm up/down and time inbetween intervals.

2 min all out followed by 5 min recovery, times 6.

Road out to the Leslie Spit and around in the afternoon. Really pushed it on the way home.

Chico 24 hours, added to a 5 man team at the last minute. Will use this as extended interval training.

2 + a bit laps at the 24 hour race. Had to very strong laps to start it off. Around 3 am the rest of the team was heading to bed so I figured this was a good chance to get our for a 3 hour ride. Unfortunately during the first lap of this I was going down a hill and shifted to give me a little more power. All of a sudden my tire was locked up and I had to stop. Took me a while to figure out what was the problem, but soon it was quite obvious. I'd snapped the frame. Had to cancel the lap and head back to bed. Rather disappointing in the end.

C • Biodegradable bikes 7

Went down to Milton to go riding with the noshnoj in Kelso. Great night for a ride and he took me everywhere. Was really feeling dialed for this and I think it showed. Normally I'm always falling behind him on the single track because he's a much superior trail rider then me, but last night I was right on his wheel.

I could see the fear in his eyes for the next OCUP. :)

C • dude, good luck at the 24. I h... 4

Light run before work.

C • Glad to see you back on your feet! 2

Warm up lap at King.

Race at King. Starting to feel like my old self again. I was able to really hammer on this one, I think my last lap was probably my best. Able to catch one guy ahead of me on the last lap.

Out to the Leslie Spit and back from my place.

Canada Cup

Road out to Ashbridges Bay, also explored along the Leslie Spit.

Wow, what a great ride this morning. Out along the waterfront trail out to Cherry beach and back. It just felt great to be out riding in the morning. 18 degrees and sunny I just felt great after the ride. Had wanted to go a bit longer, but after turning the corner at on the trail out at Cherry beach I ran into a fence blocking the way, so turned around and headed home.

C • Feeling Great 1

On a side note I'm now down to 8 toes nails as I pulled the nail off of my big toe last night. Lost my baby toe nail when the blister started to peal, the blister was big enough that it had actually formed under the toe nail.

C • Ouch! 6

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Back to the gym for weights.

Wed night at King. Felt good to be back out racing on the MTB. Legs are starting to get it back, but still slower then normal. Feet felt ok in the bike shoes except my big toes which didn't enjoy clipping in/out.

Out for a run before dinner. Both my feet and legs were hurting pretty bad on this. Guess it's just going to be a slow recovery.

C • Blisters? 3

Out for a light ride along the waterfront.

Final day of the race. As we were paddling down stream in a sleepy daze a team actually went past us like we were standing still. We mis-heard them and thought they had just overtaken us for 5th place. Well, this really woke us up, until we realized they had only done 2 score-o points. Out onto the open water and I was so tired I was almost falling out of the boat. After some pretty blue pills from Tys I was a bit better (and apparently pretty talk-a-tive). We finally finished the paddle and took our celebratory cruise through town onto the finish.

The crowd was great, even though it was 4 am and they cheered us throughout town. It was a really special moment with the police escort into the finish and all those cheering people (actually the town was dead and I don't think we saw a single person).

And thus MIX was over and Tys and I had finished our first expedition race. Great time and a great team made this a very memorable experience.

C • Well Done! 6

Pulled into the TA and we had to decide if we wanted to cave or score-o first. Since it was still dark out we opted for the caving. This was an interesting event in the race, the cold water in the cave felt great on our feet. Although I never felt comfortable down there.

Back to the TA, and a 20 minute nap, then we hit the score-o. We were all hurting by now (well everyone but Pete it seemed), but we just kept moving and ended up with a very good time. Came out of the score-o 3 min down on Wedali for fourth. A quick TA and out onto the bikes for the second last long stretch. Wedali took the road route and we had plotted to use more back roads. Big mistake since we spent 12 k fighting through deep sand. Ended up loosing 90 min to them on this section. OUCH. To their surprise 3rd place also took the trail and they were able to pass them.

Finally off the bikes still in 5th and we had a paddle to finish town.