Training Log Archive: Boltboi

Decided to ride ou to Malmalling this morning and attempt a run at the badge event today after being couped up yesterday at a senior first aid requal session. Took off this morning on wet roads and without a rain jacket so decided to leave bike in BCR and ride at a comfortable pace there.

Stopped at midland caltex to offload some weight and then decided to have a crack at riding greenmount hill in BCR. Got up to the goat farm with no issue at all so i kept on pushing. Averaged between 18 to 20km/hr up the climb which was awesome to see. In no time at all i was at the top so continued on all the way to Malmalling in BCR and setting a time of just over 2hrs for 59km so i just missed out on a 30km/hr average for a ride up the scarp.

C • Whoa! 1

Legs were feeling a little fragile after the ride but decided to pay the extra and officially enter the m35a course as 8.8km sounded within my reach rather than 12km. Took a little while to get the legs going but was clean into one. loast around 1min on 2 as i was 60m to the west of the control.

Low into 3 and lost more time at 4 when i hit a bare rock surface that was mapped as green but managed to pick up 5,6,7,8, 9,10 and 11 clean. Overshot 12 so lost another min or so and then saw Adrian close to 13 at the track crossing. Set my goal to catch him befor ethe control but he suddenly hooked east towards a control on another spur so i pushed hard to gap him and had a clean run through the last 4 controls.

Happy with run as it was my 3rd orienteering run since Easter.

Course 2 - Splits

4 people for the ride this morning but we merged into a bigger group when broad construction joined us at the first lights which took an eternity to change.

Set the pace through to the cop shop before the others rolled through.

Good pace through to deep water point before i got bored sitting in middle of pack so i just dropped a few gears and rode past everyone to up the pace ont he front. Dropped the group but only one went flying past to claim the sprint. :-)

first 5km 25.02
2nd 5km 22:36

2 new records for this year. First is 22:36 being quickest 5km time this year and 2ndly 47:38 being my quickest 10km time this year.

Final weigh in tonight so hopefully scales will be good to me.

C • If you weren't slack'n off ... 1

warmup
workout challenge take 2 (400m run 20 pushups 10 burpees) *3
Last time was 7.41min this time 7.22min

Final weigh had me come in at 82.8kg, a total of 10.7kg all up. Not bad considering i set a goal og 10kg.

C • Nice work! 5

Took my brother out for a run as i needed motivation to do this one.

Shane and i for this often wet ride. Good ride considering the sleep i have had for the weekend.

Quite a few groups of 2 or 3 riding out there this morning.