Training Log Archive: MTBjen

Not sure about time but I was told we did 50km and the pace was pretty good. Nice flat ride and a beautiful windless morning. We went out through the estate bits to missississippi bend and back around pink lake, then the castletown loop.

Two short loops after we ran out of time between important social engagements!

Slightly longer loop with Jo

Short loop with the group

Blue haven and back with Lara

Laps of the sheltered bit of bay in John's tippy boat thing while Jo had a play in the XT. I managed to not fall out and even caught a few waves. Good fun, nice to get out on the water and it was a gorgeous day. T2 was at work with his dad! The tough life of a stay-at-home mum...

Figured since I am esperance sports star of the week and since I seem to have finally stopped being ill, thanks T2, I should ride my bicycle. I rode it really fast too, it was a big group and all the quick people were there. Hung on until pink lake when the front 6 started rolling through and the rest didn't. Hung onto the B group until they turned left and I slunk home. Only a bit queasy and shivery towards the end. Yuck.

Great ride with a group of about ten. Myrup plus old shark lake rd. Some clown on a mountain bike turned up and made us all look bad but also made me work hard!

Usual loop, big group and a nice steady ride because none of the fast people turned up to spoil it :-)
I took a turn at the front because Quenten tricked me, but only a short one.

Living on the edge, we did the stearnes rd loop BACKWARDS. Crazy. I sat resolutely at the back except for a brief part of Lalor drive when Quenten tricked me. Feeling a bit sluggish but it was a great morning and I need to get back into the habit of getting up in the mornings.

Trotted halfway to the wind turbine then across to the coast path, down the headland and along the beach. Pretty awesome to jog along the beach and find T1 and 2 running towards me together - I suspect the first time of many. I asked T1 when he expects to become the slower one and he says another 14 years. That is on the record now, we shall have to wait and see.

This is an annual run the local running group do from the middle of town, 22km along the main highway to the pub at Gibson, where the owners put on an amazingly generous breakfast just for fun. And boy was it a good breakfast.
Really good fun, there were about 15-20 runners, mostly girls for some reason, and some support cyclists which made it a bit more sociable. I ran with Jo and Ainsley, we took it very easy with a plan just to finish, chatted the whole way and got there feeling great.
Jo's husband got the kids out of bed (including T2) and met us out there, and I managed to keep T2 awake all the way home so that I could join in when he had his massive catch up nap after a big couple of days.
Great way to spend a sunday morning.

Feeling particularly sluggish and disinclined to move around or do anything, which is why I've done nothing all week, and I'm doing a 12 hour shift at work today, so I think in the morning I shall run a half marathon.