Training Log Archive: MTBjen

Wow! Just found out there are 150 people in my class! No results yet tho.

Similar to yesterday, in the forest around laax. Steep bits and pretty messy under foot so I did lots of walking and didn't get lost. Lots of running at the end but still had energy for a shot at the finish chute. Just eating soup and waiting for John to finish to find out if I got him! Our split starts really, really are.

Event: Swiss O Week
 

In the forest from flims waldhaus. Mass start after the elite race. Good fun and nice and stress-free since I had T2 in the backpack. Had to walk and as a result didn't make any significant mistakes. Same course as the elite men and I was just over triple the winning time!

Group ride except there was only me, not sure whether we got the day/time/place wrong, or whether the others just slept in. Perhaps all of the above. Anyway the prospect of a group ride got me out of bed and onto my bike so it was all worthwhile. Gorgeous morning but sooooo cold, I couldn't feel my feet until about now.

Amazing how riding with other people makes you lift a bit - first lap 31.30, which is 90sec faster than my pb. Mostly from riding the downhill and twisty bits faster. 2nd lap rod taught me how to corner better on the berms which helped too. 33.00

With the runners club from west beach. Did the 2km with the pram, which seemed a bit soft but I was glad once I hit the first hill. Plus warmup/cool down.

Trotted the long way into town on the way to mothers group. Got lazy and walked home after.

Pram jog but luckily John came along to push the pram. Sand tracks out the back way then across to the beach. It was low tide and no swell so I trotted around the headland on the granite but still really slippery. Along the beach and up the stairs to meet John then home.

Group ride with my fellow D-graders from Le Tour. Good fun and they are a friendly bunch. Awfully early in the morning but since they leave practically from our driveway it was hard to find an excuse not to go. Tired now but all worthwhile. I'm trying a new theory that says that I'll get fitter if I actually ride a bike, than if I sit around knitting and wishing I was fit.

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Almost at the end of the jetty now, heading towards shark territory.

A road race! Full of pelotons and scandals and big bunches of jostling riders except not for me, because I was all by myself. It was a handicapped race (in more ways than one) and he roadies didn't think I looked like I could ride (and said so too) so I got sent off first. I managed to keep up with a few other mis-handicapped roadies for 15 km, but when they dropped me I was left alone, waiting for another group to catch me but no one did. Very lonely ride except for a smile from my support crew every lap (only one smile because half my support crew were sleeping).
But it was great to push hard on a bike, and most of the people were friendly. I think I would do more roadie races if it weren't for the roadies, who put me right off.
There was a trophy too, I had my photo taken with it and then it went back to kalgoorlie.

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Cleansing MTB ride after the morning's blasphemous sheninigans.

Just made it out past the break zone. Next time should get almost to the end of the jetty.

Round and round the mulberry bush.

It occurred to me that I could do a windtrainer if Edmund was happy to entertain himself, but I probably shouldn't have picked a day when he had been grizzly all morning and wouldn't let me put him down.
I think he misses his grandparents! Oh and those new teeth probably aren't helping.
He lasted almost ten min playing in the back of the ute, then 2 min sitting on the handlebars (actually that would've worked fine for ages but I couldn't pedal very hard) and 10 min in the pram watching me.
I did a warmup, one almost 5 min hard effort and a few 1min very hard efforts. Then we went back to crawling on around the loungeroom floor, dismembering newspapers, squealing at the cat and vomiting on things. Important developmental activities, I'm sure, but less training benefit than I would've liked.

Not sure how long I ran for, was gone for 45min but after a while I got bored and ended up rock hopping around the slippery granite and watching the huge swell splooshing up the rocks. Ran home though, didn't want to miss lunch.

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don't like people who don't like Star Wars
You say Rolls I say Royce
You say God give me a choice
You say Lord I say Christ
I don't believe in Peter Pan
Frankenstein or Superman
All I wanna do is

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my
Bicycle races are coming your way
So forget all your duties oh yeah!
Fat bottomed girls they'll be riding today
So look out for those beauties oh yeah
On your marks get set go
Bicycle race bicycle race bicycle race
Bicycle bicycle bicyI want to ride my bicycle
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
Bicycle race

You say coke I say caine
You say John I say Wayne
Hot dog I say cool it man
I don't wanna be the President of America
You say smile I say cheese
Cartier I say please
Income tax I say Jesus
I don't wanna be a candidate
For Vietnam or Watergate
Cos all I want to do is

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

Warm up, SCR pyramid
10 lots of 1min super hard, 2min recovery.
2 min cooldown.

Then I decided to put a helmet on and finish my cooldown outside the garridge. Bad idea. The weather inside the garridge was quite nice so I assumed the storm front which had been outside was obviously gone. It was actually still there, with freezing winds and horizontal prickly rain. It didn't take long to cool down in my singlit, so I rode not much past the end of the street and back.

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Beautiful run/walk/totter from le grande beach to hellfire over the wet granite.

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don't like Star Wars
You say Rolls I say Royce
You say God give me a choice
You say Lord I say Christ
I don't believe in Peter Pan
Frankenstein or Superman
All I wanna do is

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my
Bicycle races are coming your way
So forget all your duties oh yeah!
Fat bottomed girls they'll be riding today
So look out for those beauties oh yeah
On your marks get set go
Bicycle race bicycle race bicycle race
Bicycle bicycle bicyI want to ride my bicycle
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
Bicycle race

You say coke I say caine
You say John I say Wayne
Hot dog I say cool it man
I don't wanna be the President of America
You say smile I say cheese
Cartier I say please
Income tax I say Jesus
I don't wanna be a candidate
For Vietnam or Watergate
Cos all I want to do is

Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

Warmup, SCR pyramid
2x (5 quite hard / 5 hard / 5 harder) with 5 min recovery
2x 1min each leg
Cooldown.

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