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Saturday Feb 28, 2009 #
Event: Karri Cup
MTB race (Crit) 16:00 [4] 5.0 km (3:12 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Yeti ASR
The dirt crit the night before the Karri Cup is a silly, silly invention. The men's race is silly because there are so many of them and everyone knows who will place. The women's race is silly because there are so few of us and again, everyone knows who will win. Being polite and girly, three quarters of the girls are too embarrassed to enter, and everyone left over sets off in the correct order - Jo Bennett, then Steph Russell, then me (after a brief tussle with another girl who didn't read the rules but was back in 4th by the first corner), then a couple of others half a lap back. Jo lapped everyone else and we all rode in circles 20m apart until the bell rang. Silly, silly. When it came to the advertised presentations, John Carney announced that "we have decided not to bother since all the winners are the same people who will win the main race tomorrow so we'll cheer them then". Silly, and annoying too that he was right. Except that noone got cheered because there were no results.
I had decided early to race 2 laps of the crit then drop out if i wasn't going to place. After the 2 laps i just did what i had to to stay in 3rd and not get lapped.
I had decided early to race 2 laps of the crit then drop out if i wasn't going to place. After the 2 laps i just did what i had to to stay in 3rd and not get lapped.
Friday Feb 27, 2009 #
Commute (scenic) 33:00 [2] 13.0 km (2:32 / km)
slept:8.0 shoes: Flumpcycle
Tried to take a short cut via my running route to work but the vortex around Herdsman spat me back out the other way, ended up a bit longer but it is a nicer ride around the lakes.
Getting frustrated now, I have had enough of this tapering business and i want to ride a real bike FAST.
Getting frustrated now, I have had enough of this tapering business and i want to ride a real bike FAST.
Thursday Feb 26, 2009 #
Commute 29:00 [2] 11.5 km (2:31 / km)
slept:7.5 shoes: Flumpcycle
Real recovery blob, the shortest way to work. I had on Australia shorts but luckily there were no commuters out this morning. Everybody wants to overtake Australia shorts and it makes me ride harder.
Commute 33:00 [3] 13.0 km (2:32 / km)
shoes: Flumpcycle
Pootled home
Wednesday Feb 25, 2009 #
Roadie 1:16:00 [3] 33.0 km (2:18 / km)
shoes: Shiny carbon pro lite
Enjoyable recovery type spin from home. I rode up the short, easy side of Reabold, and just once. Felt really naughty :)
Tuesday Feb 24, 2009 #
Commute 23:40 11.5 km (2:03 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Set off for an easy potter to work. Which lasted about 3min, then a guy on a road bike came past. We had a chat and i sat on his tail for a bit. Spin spin, pretend I'm not trying, etc. Then a MTB passed us both. It Looked a Bit Like a $12900 full Carbon Specialised S-Works Limited ediTion with Fancy Hydraulic Discs and a Row of GPS's on the HanDlebars so I took chase. Spinspinspinspin, now it is obvious i'm really really trying. By the time i realised it was just a crusty hardtail G**** it was too late, the rider was spinning like an idiot on a singlespeed (except he had gears, the big cheater) and the race was on. We lasted all the way from Selby St to the Ent Centre, and luckily just after he dropped me on Wellington St he turned off, so I didn't feel too bad.
Commute 20:00 [3]
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
To the bike shop, who had failed to do anything with my bike.
Run 38:00 7.0 km (5:26 / km)
shoes: Metallic blue Asics
Warmup, cooldown from City Beach shops to the oval.
Only did half the session in deference to the Karri Cup.
4 x 1km (1 and 3 were uphill-ish with more headwind, 2 and 4 the opposite so faster)
4.24 4.07 4.18 4.04
Two of those were PB's (4.07 was not my PB for very long)
Did a heap of stretching in the middle and while waiting for everyone to do their 8 reps.
Only did half the session in deference to the Karri Cup.
4 x 1km (1 and 3 were uphill-ish with more headwind, 2 and 4 the opposite so faster)
4.24 4.07 4.18 4.04
Two of those were PB's (4.07 was not my PB for very long)
Did a heap of stretching in the middle and while waiting for everyone to do their 8 reps.
Monday Feb 23, 2009 #
Windtrainer race (TT - ECU) 26:16 [5] 16.0 km (1:39 / km)
slept:7.0
First 16k TT. Pretty shattered from the weekend and my hip flexors are sore, but they didn't seem to get any more sore and I felt ok riding. Apparently times on the fancy research bike are always a bit slower than they would be on the road.
Windtrainer warm up/down 15:00 [2]
Sunday Feb 22, 2009 #
MTB 1:30:00 [3] 20.0 km (4:30 / km)
slept:6.5 shoes: Yeti ASR
Fun lap of the Eagle trail with tRicky, BeagleMan and Lolly80.
Bit of a slow start- motivation was lacking and we spent a silly amount of time in Juffy/cricket's driveway and almost as long in the carpark.
I won the KOM points for Morrison Rd, quickly before anyone else realised we had started.
Started out on the first bit of single track which sTicky decided to miss out. Then through the tunnel, which SoftMan and Lolly needed LIGHTS to get through! The big soft softies! And they called Tooms soft! He may complain like a girl but at least he does ride everything!
On the walking trail to the tavern bit we picked up a small beagle. Cute little dog. Then off we went up the big climb. Feeling strongish, we powered up the hill, passed a group of three bikers like they were walking (they were). With typical awesome power, tRicky took the KOM points, with Wally not far behind. Jen right on Wally's tail, and next around the corner... the beagle! With Dangerman hot on HIS tail. Teehee.
No worries, we thought, he'll lose interest soon (the dog, not Danger). We powered through the first downhill, up the technical single track to the top of the hill, all the way down the hardest downhill bit where tRicky had a bit of a stop to calm his nerves and reassemble his bike and camelbak. Danger was the first down, then Jen. Lolly and cReaky had almost made it when they were passed in a gravelly rock garden by the dog! By this time Danger had named it 'Terminator'.
Off we hammered again - not far up the next hill a rider (i will call him rider A) passed in the other direction. The beagle turned around and followed him. Hooray! We thought. Until we got through the next section of single track and met some other riders, who had also seen rider A and had picked up the dog from him. Off went Danger like a rocket, he didn't want to get hunted down and killed by a robot dog, and I didn't see any of the boys until it got rocky again and Wally kept having to stop and walk, and tRicky kept having to stop to, well, pick himself up of the ground and clean up the blood.
But it was all good fun, it is a wicked fun track and nice and short to allow lots of mapping time afterwards.
Bit of a slow start- motivation was lacking and we spent a silly amount of time in Juffy/cricket's driveway and almost as long in the carpark.
I won the KOM points for Morrison Rd, quickly before anyone else realised we had started.
Started out on the first bit of single track which sTicky decided to miss out. Then through the tunnel, which SoftMan and Lolly needed LIGHTS to get through! The big soft softies! And they called Tooms soft! He may complain like a girl but at least he does ride everything!
On the walking trail to the tavern bit we picked up a small beagle. Cute little dog. Then off we went up the big climb. Feeling strongish, we powered up the hill, passed a group of three bikers like they were walking (they were). With typical awesome power, tRicky took the KOM points, with Wally not far behind. Jen right on Wally's tail, and next around the corner... the beagle! With Dangerman hot on HIS tail. Teehee.
No worries, we thought, he'll lose interest soon (the dog, not Danger). We powered through the first downhill, up the technical single track to the top of the hill, all the way down the hardest downhill bit where tRicky had a bit of a stop to calm his nerves and reassemble his bike and camelbak. Danger was the first down, then Jen. Lolly and cReaky had almost made it when they were passed in a gravelly rock garden by the dog! By this time Danger had named it 'Terminator'.
Off we hammered again - not far up the next hill a rider (i will call him rider A) passed in the other direction. The beagle turned around and followed him. Hooray! We thought. Until we got through the next section of single track and met some other riders, who had also seen rider A and had picked up the dog from him. Off went Danger like a rocket, he didn't want to get hunted down and killed by a robot dog, and I didn't see any of the boys until it got rocky again and Wally kept having to stop and walk, and tRicky kept having to stop to, well, pick himself up of the ground and clean up the blood.
But it was all good fun, it is a wicked fun track and nice and short to allow lots of mapping time afterwards.
MTB (mapping) 1 [1]
shoes: Yeti ASR
Spent 3 hours pootling around Guildford. Today i saw dolphins, sheep, horses, scarecrows and BMXers. I also saw my first security guard, who (typically) waved at me cheerfully. I did not map any of these things. I gave the BMXers a stern look because they were building jumps out of school furniture, and they ran off. Silly boys did not realise that i had no followup at all for the stern look so they were quite safe. Eventually i ran out of grapes, and as usual immediately lost interest and went home. It is a tricky balancing problem - if there are too few grapes i don't get much mapping done. If there were more grapes I would stay out there longer but then get diarrhoea.
Now I am OCADding, which is NOT loggable, Mr Thackray.
Now I am OCADding, which is NOT loggable, Mr Thackray.
Paddle (Good Vibrations) 1:30:00 [3]
shoes: Fenn XT
Nice paddle with tRicky from sohpie's ex-power station, around Heirrison Island twice and back. We got to listen to the bass from 5 different stages all mixed together, which wasn't quite what we had in mind when we thought we would get some free music. The island was guarded by a perimeter of bouncers in yellow vests, who were sitting on rocks looking bored. Couldn't see any kangaroos but their home seemed to be well protected from the delinquents.
Saturday Feb 21, 2009 #
Paddle (Rotto swim) 8:04:00 20.0 km (24:12 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Hat of Patience
I had my own 4:43 challenge today - took John's Dad's snail farm for a float in the ocean and watched 4 swimmers swim for 5min 43 times each.
It was a really fun day, for about 5 hours. Couldn't have had better conditions and the swimmers (all first timers) had a brilliant time. Towards the end it got a bit tedious though, and my back got sore. One of them was very fast, two were moderately fast but couldn't swim in a straight line or follow the ski properly. Vera swam well, and in a straight line, obeyed instructions without being smacked and even coped with having stupid faces made at her every time she breathed.
There was no icecream at the end - only beer, gyrating teenagers and seedy naked englishmen, so I was quite glad to get the ferry home.
It was a really fun day, for about 5 hours. Couldn't have had better conditions and the swimmers (all first timers) had a brilliant time. Towards the end it got a bit tedious though, and my back got sore. One of them was very fast, two were moderately fast but couldn't swim in a straight line or follow the ski properly. Vera swam well, and in a straight line, obeyed instructions without being smacked and even coped with having stupid faces made at her every time she breathed.
There was no icecream at the end - only beer, gyrating teenagers and seedy naked englishmen, so I was quite glad to get the ferry home.
Friday Feb 20, 2009 #
Roadie hills (Reabold) 1:20:00 31.0 km (2:35 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Shiny carbon pro lite
Warmup from home via the coast/challenger.
Reps up the bike path side of Reabold - big chain ring, seated, 6 of, with recoveries down the road and down Oceanic. Pretty slow, but that is the point of using a great big gear.
3.27 3.30 3.32 3.37 3.28 3.23
Bit wobbly after the last one.
It is mildly upsetting that these times are I think slower than Fletch and Tooms' run times for the same hill...
They are also 15sec slower than the last time i did the same hill - I did push a harder gear this time but perhaps i am just being a bit soft? Also this time i started timing at the white line, last time i think i used the bollards. Excuses, excuses.
Cooldown to parents' place.
Reps up the bike path side of Reabold - big chain ring, seated, 6 of, with recoveries down the road and down Oceanic. Pretty slow, but that is the point of using a great big gear.
3.27 3.30 3.32 3.37 3.28 3.23
Bit wobbly after the last one.
It is mildly upsetting that these times are I think slower than Fletch and Tooms' run times for the same hill...
They are also 15sec slower than the last time i did the same hill - I did push a harder gear this time but perhaps i am just being a bit soft? Also this time i started timing at the white line, last time i think i used the bollards. Excuses, excuses.
Cooldown to parents' place.
Run (commute) 31:30 [3] 5.7 km (5:32 / km)
More rogaining practice. Ran from parents' to work. Need to keep practicing in the hope that tRicky will have me back for another rogaine one day. It wasn't as far as a rogaine though, and I didn't see any cows, foxes, sheep, canadians or volvos.
C • Yay! 4
Adventure Racing (amazing race) 2:00:00 [1]
shoes: Hat of Patience
This is really really soft, but I have to stay ahead of matsiv....
Annual work amazing race - we were the yellow team and cunningly did most of the questions on the internet, then spent the rest of the time running around northbridge. We needed to get lots of help from passers by and the hardest part was finding passers by who spoke english. Crazy.
It was a lot more fun than immigration medicals, and at the end there was free beer.
Also we won, so there was a free bottle of wine too.
Annual work amazing race - we were the yellow team and cunningly did most of the questions on the internet, then spent the rest of the time running around northbridge. We needed to get lots of help from passers by and the hardest part was finding passers by who spoke english. Crazy.
It was a lot more fun than immigration medicals, and at the end there was free beer.
Also we won, so there was a free bottle of wine too.
Thursday Feb 19, 2009 #
Roadie 55:00 [3] 24.0 km (2:18 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Shiny carbon pro lite
Nice solid ride from home - chilly this morning, I am a bit disgruntled because i have not yet had enough summer. It felt like there was a headwind in most directions, but perhaps I am just a bit tired. Pushed hard on the hills and chased down a few roadies. Otherwise just rode. Nice start to the day :)
Commute 29:00 [3] 12.0 km (2:25 / km)
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Tried pretty hard this morning, but it doesn't seem to make it any faster.
Commute 20:00 [2]
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Tried to ride home but I blacked out and found myself in a shopping mall, with lots of cans of rice cream. City Beach ladies kept asking me "how will you carry all that home on your bike?" so I had to get picked up by the ever-suffering Tooms in his new truck.
Swim (frolic) 5:00 [1]
shoes: Feet
Oh i like the beach...
Wednesday Feb 18, 2009 #
Roadie 2:03:00 56.0 km (2:12 / km)
shoes: Shiny carbon pro lite
To Joondalup and back. Cruised there with the tail wind (it was meant to be a warmup) and on the way back pushed pretty hard with a hefty head wind, trying to get back before the plumber arrived. In the end I got there after he left, and John had told him about the spare key anyway, but it had the useful effect of making me hurt! Which makes up slightly for missing my Kings Park session.
Windtrainer (VO2max testing) 28:30
Trying to find a way to fill all the spare time in my empty life, so I volunteered for a research study at ECU. It is about single vs double legged bike training, which should be interesting, and hopefully also make me stronger (in particular my munted, bludging right leg). Unfortunately it means fitting in two trips a week to Joondalup, but hopefully that will fit into training.
VO2max about 56 today. HR only made it up to 178, but apparently it is normal this sort of testing to not hit max HR.
VO2max about 56 today. HR only made it up to 178, but apparently it is normal this sort of testing to not hit max HR.
Note
I have a confession to make. I swore it would never happen, but when I was cleaning bikes this morning I, well, got out a toothbrush and some detergent and scrubbed my white handlebar tape clean. Then I tried to ride 56km without touching it, which didn't work.
Tuesday Feb 17, 2009 #
Windtrainer intervals 50:00
slept:7.0 shoes: Shiny carbon pro lite
Didn't finish the set but I'm proud of myself for doing any of it at all! I fed the dog BEFORE the set today, which helped. The bike spins faster without a nose between the spokes.
Warmup
Small chain ring pyramid
6 x 4min threshold, 1min easy (was meant to be 2 sets of 4)
Token cooldown
Never made it to the toaster before i fell asleep on the bed, woke up when JT got back from swimming. Luckily no 8am appointment today!
Warmup
Small chain ring pyramid
6 x 4min threshold, 1min easy (was meant to be 2 sets of 4)
Token cooldown
Never made it to the toaster before i fell asleep on the bed, woke up when JT got back from swimming. Luckily no 8am appointment today!
Commute 29:00 [3] 12.0 km (2:25 / km)
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Nothing interesting happened at all...
Commute 18:00 [2] 7.0 km (2:34 / km)
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Got rescued halfway home.
Run intervals 38:00 7.5 km (5:04 / km)
shoes: Metallic blue Asics
Missed the warmup by driving to city beach. So i did the first 1500m interval as a warmup. Predictably, after my easy lap the rest got slower and slower. Lap 3 my left hip flexor and right knee got sore. Lap 4 still hurt but a large footy team started their warmup run and it seemed rude not to catch up to them and check more closely how well their little shorts fitted.
4 x 1500m (half-hearted) with 2min jog recoveries
7.09 7.13 7.30 (!) 7.23
Short warm down and stretching then hurried off to eat three types of cake for dinner.
4 x 1500m (half-hearted) with 2min jog recoveries
7.09 7.13 7.30 (!) 7.23
Short warm down and stretching then hurried off to eat three types of cake for dinner.
Monday Feb 16, 2009 #
Commute (spinspinspin) 25:00 [3]
slept:7.0 shoes: Flumpcycle
I think i kept my average cadence over 120 today, riding from the panelbeaters into work. I got to play on a whole new bit of commuter racetrack, and raced a bright pink girl roadie (pink bike, pink helmet, pink lycra) all the way to town. She would pass on all the downs, smugly showing off her big chain ring, and then i would spin erratically past her up all the hills, board shorts flapping in the breeze. She turned into my street, but luckily not my garage because i don't think any conversation could have had a happy outcome after all that...
Commute 36:00 [2] 13.5 km (2:40 / km)
shoes: Flumpcycle
Rode home the lumpy way, not sure why, it's not like the commuterbike has suspension, or fat tyres. More fun though.
Sunday Feb 15, 2009 #
MTB 1:00:00 [3]
shoes: Yeti ASR
Loop from the Dell with Dangerman. John and Boltboi were out hucking it on some gnarly fire trail so there were no wannabe roadies around. Since Martin a) likes mountain biking and b) has no morals, we went up Gungin and down the wrong side, did the Kalamunda loop and the brilliant fun bit of B******** track past the Camel Farm and back to the Dell.
MTB 2:00:00 [2]
shoes: Yeti ASR
Met up with Susan, Ngaire and Mark for a social (very social) ride around the little oven loop (plus memory lane/white tag). Good fun. Had a nice lunch at the Mundaring Weir pub after (where there is a pool! More pubs should have pools).
Trek (mapping) 1 [0]
shoes: Metallic blue Asics
Spent the afternoon pottering at Guildford. It is going to be a most excellent map, really tricksy. Some of it unmappably tricksy. Double-decker courtyards, blind-ended alleyways, weird little gardens under staircases, even the odd boulder. Should be fun :)
Saturday Feb 14, 2009 #
Roadie long (Hills) 3:30:00 [3] 89.0 km (2:22 / km)
slept:5.5 shoes: Shiny carbon pro lite
Not certain about distance/time, still no carbon fibre cycle computer.
From home, fought into the easterly to Midland to meet Boltboi and Stolly80, then let Stolly drag me up greenmount. Once we turned off at Mundaring it was a bit more sheltered, and the rest of the ride was a good solid undulating hills ride through to Pickering Brook and eventually down some precipitous cliff edge into Gosnells, where we spent the afternoon cheering for John (again) while he (again) ran FAST and also swam and rode a bike a bit.
From home, fought into the easterly to Midland to meet Boltboi and Stolly80, then let Stolly drag me up greenmount. Once we turned off at Mundaring it was a bit more sheltered, and the rest of the ride was a good solid undulating hills ride through to Pickering Brook and eventually down some precipitous cliff edge into Gosnells, where we spent the afternoon cheering for John (again) while he (again) ran FAST and also swam and rode a bike a bit.
Orienteering race (MetrO Mt Claremont) 39:25 [4] 7.9 km (4:59 / km)
shoes: Metallic blue Asics
Not sure about distance yet, Juffy STILL hasn't put up Routegadget, the slacker.
I meant to jog, but i got a bit riled up by all those boys and ended up running pretty hard and even enjoying it. Yay I got my seven!
I meant to jog, but i got a bit riled up by all those boys and ended up running pretty hard and even enjoying it. Yay I got my seven!
Life Coaching 20:00 [3]
shoes: Hat of Patience
Had a long analysis of Hageby - I've decided I can learn a lot from his carefree and pleasurable approach to life. Grapes are great. Tennis balls are pretty cool. And so many other girls come up to pat him and talk to him that I always have friends to gossip with. Threw the ball for him too after my salt water flounder at the beach. I like the beach.
Friday Feb 13, 2009 #
Commute 30:00 [2] 12.0 km (2:30 / km)
slept:7.5 shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Big head wind today. I was taking it easy for a while but got distracted seeing how fast i can make my legs spin before the pedals start clunking uncoordinatedly. I'm getting better at it, and occasionally can even keep up with the odd roadie for a while. They don't seem to like it, possibly because I look like a complete moron. I'm starting to think it was someone on a single speed who knocked tRicky out the other day.
Commute 18:00 [2] 6.0 km (3:00 / km)
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Thought i saw a very fat and slow flying fish, but it was actually a cormorant swimming along completely submerged except for its long neck, carrying a big fish in its beak. That was pretty awesome, and made my whole commuting week :)
Run 35:46 6.5 km (5:30 / km)
shoes: Retro green Asics
Warmup/short cooldown
6 x 600m on 3.36 with about 200m jog recoveries.
2.35 2.38 2.38 2.39 2.38 2.38
Meant to be 10 reps but I had tired tired legs and a dinner date. I struggled through the whole thing, couldn't quite hit 5km pace. The 6th was really slow so i hammered the last 200m to make it up. Left hip flexor suddenly very sore again but I did a heap of stretching so it will be fine tomorrow I'm sure.
6 x 600m on 3.36 with about 200m jog recoveries.
2.35 2.38 2.38 2.39 2.38 2.38
Meant to be 10 reps but I had tired tired legs and a dinner date. I struggled through the whole thing, couldn't quite hit 5km pace. The 6th was really slow so i hammered the last 200m to make it up. Left hip flexor suddenly very sore again but I did a heap of stretching so it will be fine tomorrow I'm sure.
Thursday Feb 12, 2009 #
Roadie (Roadie Fun) 1:22:00 [3] 39.3 km (2:05 / km)
slept:8.0 shoes: Shiny carbon pro lite
More roadie games with Old Man Tooms.... as usual it was a nice fun social evening ride until we turned North at Freo. First we had to ride hard cos we could. Then we had to see if we could crack 60kph going along Cott Beach. Then John said he saw "a fat man and his girlfriend" up ahead so we'd better catch them. I thought it was odd that although we were going about 55kph we were not gaining all that fast. It turns out this was because they were not fat, they were lean, cut roadies, and the girl had a roadie attitude so wide that we needed two lanes to pass her. We rode behind them for a bit, John not wanting to ruin his game by passing on a downhill (and he wanted to see how much he could annoy them with his "brrrrrr...." wheelie noise). Up the hill past the army barracks John made his move. As he passed, the girl pulled out too- she wasn't having ANY of this. And wasn't going to let me in either. They were now riding three abreast, and since i don't like to be separated from John, my only option was too pass all three of them, and ride away up the hill.
Ouch. We did ride away, but unfortunately they followed us all the way to the end of Challenger, by which time my poor rogaining legs were toast, and i wobbled all the way home. John apparently hit 68 on Empire but i didn't even get to see it.
Oh sooo much fun :)
Ouch. We did ride away, but unfortunately they followed us all the way to the end of Challenger, by which time my poor rogaining legs were toast, and i wobbled all the way home. John apparently hit 68 on Empire but i didn't even get to see it.
Oh sooo much fun :)
Wednesday Feb 11, 2009 #
Swim 5:00 [1]
slept:8.0 shoes: Feet
The beach was really, really nice this morning. I only log it when it is particularly lovely :)
Run 48:00 [3] 9.0 km (5:20 / km)
shoes: Metallic blue Asics
Flat plod from the pool around Perry Lakes/McGillivray and back with John and the hardened rogainers Wil and Nicki.
Tuesday Feb 10, 2009 #
Commute 17:00 [3] 6.5 km (2:37 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Feel good this morning!
Commute 32:00 [2] 13.0 km (2:28 / km)
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Home
Run (recovery blob) 30:00 [2] 4.0 km (7:30 / km)
shoes: Metallic blue Asics
Did the warmup and cooldown with the running group, then while they did their 2k reps i did a couple of 400s then ran to the beach for a swim. Heap of stretching. Feeling good now except left hip flexor has seized up.
Monday Feb 9, 2009 #
Commute 31:00 [2] 12.0 km (2:35 / km)
slept:10.0 shoes: Flumpcycle
Slow, slow. Felt ok on the bike, my riding muscles are fine, but i'm still pretty tired and can't walk.
Commute 15:00 [3] 6.0 km (2:30 / km)
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Sunday Feb 8, 2009 #
Rogaining is Fun (Hot Summer Night) 7:51:00 [2] 40.0 km (11:47 / km)
slept:0.0 shoes: fluoro yellow trabucos
Swim 5:00 [1]
shoes: Feet
Lovely swim at the beach after a long nap. It was a good muscle loosener, and the effects lasted exactly as long as the swim did. After that i couldn't walk again. The dog tried to drown me even though i explained carefully that i am not a life raft. Now i have claw marks in my cleavage which people at work are too afraid to ask about.
Saturday Feb 7, 2009 #
Event: Upside down rogaine
Rogaining is Fun (Hot Summer Night) 4:00:00 [2] 20.0 km (12:00 / km)
slept:8.0 shoes: fluoro yellow trabucos
Thanks tRicky for such a fun event! I am broken now.
This was my second rogaine, and i was a bit worried, since it was unlikely to have as much of a focus on lunch as the first. It turns out you do a heap of walking in night events though, so i was fine. Didn't get tired until we ran for about 2 hours after the sun came up.
It was hard to run, even though it was open farmland - turns out this does not mean springy, green grass, but actually field after field of spiky knee-high ex-canola plants (which you can only run through if you don't lift your feet off the ground and goose-step a bit) and lots of little rocks hidden under grass. Also about 3 million fence crossings - I only electrocuted tRicky once, which he was a bit upset about but I think once is pretty good, considering. We crossed a pipeline twice. And the cattle-swampy Williams river a few times. Also we probably crossed some boundaries into poor humour. They put all the controls on top of hills, but at least that makes them easier to find.
tRicky is an amazing navigating genius ("you say that about everyone" says John. But that is not true. I only said it about JT and Fletch but it turns out they are rank amateurs. tRicky only made 2 small errors all night, and one of them really was Andre's fault :-) I am so impressed with the precision - i always thought rogaining nav was quite vague until now.) and my only job for the evening was to keep up, which i tried to do.
Couldn't do it today if i had to - we went to the beach and it took me 25min to get from the edge of the ocean back to the car, even with John letting me draft behind him. My feet are a world of pain and my hip flexors are unhappy. Feeling far better after a long nap, and looking forward to going back to bed ASAP after dinner.
We did really, really well, for the record. I think I shall bask happily for a while. We covered something like 61km. And i get TWO BADGES to sew onto my floppy hat. 1st mixed and 2nd overall. We were 200 points off beating Wil (well done Wil and Ben! They were pretty awesome) and 400 in front of 3rd.
This was my second rogaine, and i was a bit worried, since it was unlikely to have as much of a focus on lunch as the first. It turns out you do a heap of walking in night events though, so i was fine. Didn't get tired until we ran for about 2 hours after the sun came up.
It was hard to run, even though it was open farmland - turns out this does not mean springy, green grass, but actually field after field of spiky knee-high ex-canola plants (which you can only run through if you don't lift your feet off the ground and goose-step a bit) and lots of little rocks hidden under grass. Also about 3 million fence crossings - I only electrocuted tRicky once, which he was a bit upset about but I think once is pretty good, considering. We crossed a pipeline twice. And the cattle-swampy Williams river a few times. Also we probably crossed some boundaries into poor humour. They put all the controls on top of hills, but at least that makes them easier to find.
tRicky is an amazing navigating genius ("you say that about everyone" says John. But that is not true. I only said it about JT and Fletch but it turns out they are rank amateurs. tRicky only made 2 small errors all night, and one of them really was Andre's fault :-) I am so impressed with the precision - i always thought rogaining nav was quite vague until now.) and my only job for the evening was to keep up, which i tried to do.
Couldn't do it today if i had to - we went to the beach and it took me 25min to get from the edge of the ocean back to the car, even with John letting me draft behind him. My feet are a world of pain and my hip flexors are unhappy. Feeling far better after a long nap, and looking forward to going back to bed ASAP after dinner.
We did really, really well, for the record. I think I shall bask happily for a while. We covered something like 61km. And i get TWO BADGES to sew onto my floppy hat. 1st mixed and 2nd overall. We were 200 points off beating Wil (well done Wil and Ben! They were pretty awesome) and 400 in front of 3rd.
Friday Feb 6, 2009 #
Commute 25:20 [3] 11.5 km (2:12 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
I worked out how to get some speed out of the commuterbike this morning- it takes a whole lot of well-timed, extremely fast spinning, some really hard powering up hills, and a lot of shameless aerodynamic posturing. Great fun though. I am feeling as bouncy as a large hairy dog with a fluffy toy bunny.
Commute 18:00 [3] 7.5 km (2:24 / km)
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Finally the stars aligned and Tooms passed me and picked me up before I had to ride up Hale Rd into the headwind. Turns out my hand signal for "stop, i'm tired" means "feeling strong, see you at home" in Toomey-speak so I'm lucky he stopped - we will have to figure something out for next time.
Run 20:00 [2]
shoes: Retro green Asics
Did the warmup, some run throughs, a heap of stretching then went home. Best training session ever!
Thursday Feb 5, 2009 #
Commute 29:00 [3] 11.5 km (2:31 / km)
slept:8.0 shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Fun ride to work- amazing how much easier it is without tired legs.
Commute 20:00 [3] 6.0 km (3:20 / km)
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Short commute straight into a handy 25 knot headwind around the river. Possibly my slowest EVER ride.
Paddle 1:00:00 [3]
shoes: Fenn XT
Laps of Matilda Bay with John, practicing the O'Leary drills. It feels great paddling properly, I have definitely gotten faster, and even managed to beat John in one sprint, when he didn't realise we were racing.
It was the only vaguely sheltered place, so it was pretty busy in the bay with outriggers, surf boats, other paddlers, plus two groups of UWA ODC kayakers milling in circles.
It was the only vaguely sheltered place, so it was pretty busy in the bay with outriggers, surf boats, other paddlers, plus two groups of UWA ODC kayakers milling in circles.
Wednesday Feb 4, 2009 #
Note
slept:6.0 (rest day)
Slept horribly, so i had a quick nap after lunch. Woke up at 5pm! I'm taking this taper week pretty seriously... no Kings Park loops this week either. Not going to log a trip to the beach with the dog.
Tuesday Feb 3, 2009 #
Run (commute to work) 1:02:40 [3] 11.3 km (5:33 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Brooks trail shoes
Really muggy when I left but slightly better by the time I got to town. Just a bit faster than rogaine pace today... That was the last run before Saturday.
Monday Feb 2, 2009 #
Commute 30:00 [2] 11.5 km (2:37 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Too hot today to even walk to the kitchen, let alone do Reabold Hill reps. So I decided it was a good day to start my rogaine taper, and rolled very gently into town.
Commute 44:00 [2]
shoes: Crusty Malvern Star
Went home the scenic way. Mmm. I might as well say that, because noone is going to believe that an Australian MTB Orienteering team member, when on her bike, commuting the same route for 14 months, could get lost on the way home.
Sunday Feb 1, 2009 #
Roadie (aaargh) 2:00:00 [2] 50.0 km (2:24 / km)
slept:8.0 shoes: Shiny carbon pro lite
Slept very, very well last night. Reluctant grind to Guildford, then a decelerating pootle to Grandma's for lunch. Hot, hot, hot. Drank about 4L between 9.30 and 1pm, and still thirsty.
Trek (mapping) 1 [0]
shoes: Feet
Couple of hours mapping at Guildford. Not training, but it definitely contributed to my hot, tiredness!