Training Log Archive: MTBjen

Gym stuff. Did 12 min on an exercise bike so I am totally ready for the triathlon.

C • Uphill 1

Answers to week 1 quiz:

1) John left a pile of sand inside the front door. Unusual only in that he didn't have time to clean it up but DID have time to ring and warn me so that I wouldn't get annoyed and also to blame Edmund

2) Ruth vomited on Edmund's hair and the entertainment centre carpet, just as I was trying to convince the puppeteer that my cute kids should be allowed to skip the queue

3) John's spittle on the rower at the gym, obviously. Kids and pets aren't allowed in the gym.

4) Toby got hold of Edmund's school socks and got them all muddy (technically the perpetrator might be whoever left the socks where toby could get them - John? Edmund?)

5) Ruth DID vomit spectacularly on the car seat but that was the week before. Last week's mess was Toby dribbling on the chewable bits of car seat when it was drying in the sun after being washed.

6) Edmund had diarrhoea and got caught short in the hallway halfway to the toilet. I found him trying to mop it up with toilet paper, leaving little drips along the floor, walls, toilet seat....

7) Molly ate the mouse, half-digested then regurgitated it on the front path

8) Toby found the half-digested mouse and chewed it up, then spat it out on the driveway, three-quarters digested when I shouted at him.

9) Edmund found the mouse next but thankfully didn't eat it

Stand by for next week/s quiz- tRicky and Tash are coming to stay so depending on how messy they are it could be a corker.

C • Self marking 5

For TinyToes' benefit, mix'n'match this week's messes for 50 points:

Perpetrator: Toby, Ruth, Edmund, Molly, John

Mess: vomit; poo; pile of sand; dribble; mud; spittle; regurgitated half-digested mouse; chewed-up three-quarters-digested mouse

Site: hallway, front path, entertainment centre carpet; Edmunds hair, rower at the gym; edmunds school socks; car seat; inside the front door; driveway

C • Mix 'n' match 15

C • clarification please? 6

Gym stuff, shorter today because John wanted coffee first and anyway the gym was full of cert 3 students avoiding doing what they were supposed to be doing and looking self-conscious.

Quaranup rd then to goode beach

C • Ooooh 2

Usual gym stuff. Nearly bailed due to being tired and grumpy after a couple of disturbed nights of sleep, mostly from Tooms leaping out of bed on the hour every hour and wailing at his leg cramps, also Edmund asking for an apple at 1am, Edmund getting disoriented at 3am and weeing in the hallway, the cat demanding to be fed at 2.30am. Why do people think having a newborn makes you tired??
Anyway the gym was fun. Also fitted in a swim with Ruth who enchanted everyone in the pool. Then went to the physio to see which bits of john's exercise prescription she disagrees with.

C • New game 1

John's list of stuff plus some running and stuff.

Many thanks to Tash for dragging me out for my longest run in about 18 months and also for pushing the pram for most of it!
Good fun.

C • fun! 1

Gym stuff including 12min running on the treadmill and 1km on the rower and 10min warmup on the arc trainer. Yawn. Why don't MTB tracks have crèches?

C • 1.00 is great! 1

John's list of posture-reversal magic finishing with a 1km rowing time trial which I did in 4.40 - nice and slow so there is room for improvement.
Also swam 150m afterwards which is not worthy of its own post.

Exercise!! Ruth and i are having a girls weekend at home and went for a little jog with the pram and the dog. The dog was not in the pram, he was tied to it and pulled it up the hills for me :-) Ruth went catatonic just like Efmund used to.