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Training Log Archive: MTBjen

In the 30 days ending Sep 30, 2008:

activity

time

miles

Adventure Racing

9:46:00

Roadie

8:40:32

128.25

206.4

Run

6:21:23

12.05

19.4

Orienteering

4:43:46

MTB

1:15:00

Paddle

45:00

Strength/Core

3:30

Total

31:35:11

140.31

225.8

averages - sleep:6.3

9:46

0:00

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Tuesday Sep 30, 2008 #

Run (plod) 34:00 [3]
shoes: Feet

Hervey Bay. Better than doing nothing but felt pretty ordinary

Monday Sep 29, 2008 #

Orienteering race (relay) 53:00 [4]
shoes: Brooks trail shoes

Totally let the team down courtesy of 2.5 big errors. Rest of the course was fine. Much more fun map than yesterday

C • No way 2

Sunday Sep 28, 2008 #

Orienteering race (long) 1:00:00 [3]
shoes: Brooks trail shoes

My first official DNF (ie, nothing broke, i just got hot and bored and wasn't running well and the nav was boring, and then the course went sooo close to the finish! So i pulled out. I wasn't actually coming last at the time, I found out later!)

Saturday Sep 27, 2008 #

Orienteering race (sprint) 22:46 [4]
shoes: Brooks trail shoes

Good fun course on a fun map with a mix of bush, buildings and horse jumps. Coped ok with my first real orienteering race, and even beat some people (and not just the mispunchers either!)

Tuesday Sep 23, 2008 #

Roadie (commute) 1:10:00 [3] 27.0 km (2:36 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie

To work and back

Run intervals (balga loop) 50:00 [3]
shoes: Brooks trail shoes

Sluggish tonight. 5 laps of the loop but i didn't have a watch and was pretty tired i guess from the (non) race still so i jogged them.

Sunday Sep 21, 2008 #

MTB 30:00 [2]
slept:6.0 shoes: I love my Yeti

Gentle potter around Goode Beach with John and Fletch, still feeling bitter.

Saturday Sep 20, 2008 #

Event: 2008 Australian Championships

Event: Great Southern Adventure Race

Adventure Racing (GSAR) 9:46:00 [3]

I am so angry about this race for so many reasons i can't even be bothered writing a report- pity because the first day was fun (the second day was fun too, although we were not racing by then)

Thursday Sep 18, 2008 #

Roadie (commute) 29:30 [3] 13.0 km (2:16 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie

Nice tail wind to work

Wednesday Sep 17, 2008 #

Roadie (commute) 22:00 [3]
shoes: Mongoose Roadie

From the car place to work

Roadie (commute) 23:00 [3]
shoes: Mongoose Roadie

To running

Run long 1:01:14 [3]
shoes: Brooks trail shoes

Nice run with Jess, from the pool, around the trails a bit, over Reabold and back up the coast. No GPS but it was a decent run, faster than last week.

C • Stickler 2

Tuesday Sep 16, 2008 #

Roadie (commute) 38:00 [3] 16.0 km (2:23 / km)
slept:5.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie

To work 1 then to work 2. Grumpy after a particularly miserable and disillusioning (and late) shift at work last night. I wonder how many people died last night due to the floundering health care system? Not sure if i want any part of it any more.
Ben Hewitt is apparently in trouble now with his wife, who doesn't want him doing the anaconda solo. But he has to, in order to smash Pete who was mean to him because he thinks Ben is not good enough to play with. Really, boys :)

Roadie (commute) 35:00 [3] 14.0 km (2:30 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie

to running

Run intervals (Balga Loop) 45:14 9.0 km (5:02 / km)
shoes: Brooks trail shoes

warmup/cooldown
5 laps of the blackboy loop backwards (well, in the opposite direction to last week) with 2 min recoveries. John gave us a full recovery before the last one which was also exactly 2 min.
3.48 3.52 4.10 4.14 4.10
Ran the first 2 hard after a, well, motivating conversation with Liz during the warmup. Then blew up on the 3rd and survived after that. The first two were similar to last week's two.

Sunday Sep 14, 2008 #

Event: Western Australian Long Distance Orienteering Champs

MTB (bike) 15:00 [1]
slept:8.0 shoes: one-day-old Yeti

More playing in the cow poo, can't wait for a proper ride!

Orienteering race (Long distance champs) 1:44:00 [4]
shoes: Space-age TEVAs

Again, gave the TEVAs another chance, and regretted it this time.
A shocking run, right from my 15min error at the start until my indecisive route up the finish chute. Sloppy, sloppy nav. Slow and inefficient on the short legs, indecisive on the long legs, fell over countless times for no good reason. Stupid sport. Once again, however, a great course on a great map and it was too nice out there to be too annoyed. Thanks to the great western decline of orienteering as a sport, i got a certificate for that effort.

C • And a BADGE 5

Paddle 45:00 [3]

Practice with Pete on the double ski and John pacing us from behind. More stable than i was expecting- we should be ok as long as the weather is not too horrendous.

Saturday Sep 13, 2008 #

Event: Western Australian Middle Distance Orienteering Champs

Run warm up/down 20:00 [2]
slept:6.0 shoes: Space-age TEVAs

Orienteering race (Middle distance champs) 44:00 [4]
shoes: Space-age TEVAs

Decided to give TEVAs one chance, and they were good on the granite.
For me, this was a good race. Deja vu city though, i had 4 or 5 good legs at the start, then started thinking about other stuff and got sloppy, then got really distracted, a bit cocky and made a big stupid error, then had a good finish. Great course on a great map, i had so much fun out there and don't care that everyone smashed me :)

C • Smashed 2

MTB (bike bike bike) 30:00 [1]
shoes: brand spanking Yeti

Playing in the granite and cow poo. Bike, bike.

Friday Sep 12, 2008 #

Roadie (river loop) 1:29:00 [3] 43.4 km (2:03 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie

Rode the long way around the river to work with Lisen. Much more fun than the usual commute and roadies get even more riled up when they get passed by two girls chatting. We matched the pace of the freeway cars for ages so must have been riding at 100kph, wow.

Roadie (commute) 29:30 [3] 13.0 km (2:16 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie

Home

Run 25:00
shoes: Feet

Beach fartlek. 8x40/20s and 8x30/30s with recovery in the middle. Plus some drills and runthroughs after instead of the beach session. Blustery, squally night and only 4 people turned up, one an admirably keen newby

Strength/Core (Plank) 3:30 [3]
shoes: Elbows

Token core workout before the really bad weather came.

Thursday Sep 11, 2008 #

Roadie (commute) 27:42 [3] 13.0 km (2:08 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie

Had a late night after getting distracted shopping for bikes :)
Lvoely ride to work in the rain, and was only 5sec off my record!

Roadie (commute) 30:00 [3] 13.0 km (2:18 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie

Planned to train this arvo but spent an hour at the bike shop instead, which was far more fun. Have convinced myself to spend way too much on new bike. and i should have it ready for the GSAR too! sooooo excited....

C • b = nB + 1 5

Wednesday Sep 10, 2008 #

Roadie (commute) 30:20 [3] 13.0 km (2:20 / km)
slept:8.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie

To work. Feeling much better after a yorkshire pudding and a proper sleep. Starting to look forward to training again :)

Roadie (commute) 33:00 [3] 14.0 km (2:21 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie

To running

Run (painful plod) 1:04:20 [3] 10.4 km (6:11 / km)
shoes: Space-age TEVAs

Painfully slow plod from bold park around the trails, with wil and john (both on their first run back after a couple of lazy and atypically alcoholic weeks) and hageby, who is too embarrassed about his little bald feet to run properly.
The TEVA shoes are disappointing to run in- no bounce for running on the road, but the soles are too thin on the trails and you can feel every rock. And it took me about 10min to work out the complicated elastic/lace/clip/velcro/strappy arrangement so they wouldn't be much good in a multisport race either! But they look good, so i shall consign them to wearing to work, and then perhaps in next year's teva race, so i can win another pair.

C • TeVA 10

Tuesday Sep 9, 2008 #

Roadie (commute) 30:30 [2] 13.0 km (2:21 / km)
slept:2.5 shoes: Mongoose Roadie

Felt really wobbly on the roadie after a month off. Even stopped to check if my wheels were attached properly. They were, i am just a gumby, and a bit sleepy too.

Roadie (commute) 33:00 [3] 14.0 km (2:21 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie

To running

Run 22:35
shoes: Retro green Asics

Got there late so i only did a warmup/cooldown and 2 laps of the B@#$kboy Loop.
3.46 3.49 (900m, uphill the whole way, it is a marvel of physics).
Felt far far better than i was expecting, and actually managed to run instead of just surviving the session.

C • It's actually a trail desig... 1

Saturday Sep 6, 2008 #

Run 59:00 [3]
shoes: Brooks trail shoes

Lovely early morning run through Krakow- over a big hill with a fort, through a big park and a cemetary, along the river, around a castle, through the old town and back for the last large and polish breakfast (cinnamon-flavoured chocolate cereal, big sausages and 5 types of cheese. mmm.)
Very touristy. Surprised to not feel awful, after a month off running.

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