Training Log Archive: MTBjenIn the 7 days ending Mar 9, 2008:
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Sunday Mar 9, 2008 #
Run (dog jog) 20:00 [2]
slept:8.0 shoes: Retro green Asics
Pottered to the oval and back, with a tennis ball break in the middle. Haggles carried the ball all the way home today, with uncharacteristic focus. Only dropped it in the neighbours' hedge at the end.
Roadie (commute) 1:03:00 [3] 23.0 km (2:44 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
To john's gym and back. Slower on the way home due to the head wind and the hills, apparently. Not due to waiting for the MTBer on my tail.
Roadie (spin) 1:00:00 [5] 21.0 km (2:51 / km)
Spin class at john's gym. Hard work and very sweaty, if a little bit dodgily run - he would start a set with "the max intensity at 80rpm" then make you speed up. Which is impossible, by definition. I went a km less than john, so he ended up in northbridge. I guess. Also 120kcal less, which is why he ate all the wedding cake.
Swim (token) 12:00 [1] 0.6 km (20:00 / km)
shoes: Feet
I really didn't want to do this before i got in the pool, and even less so once i was in the pool, so i got out while noone was watching.
Note
Have finally downloaded the GPS trace for yesterday's O course and my total stoppage time was 43min which is half the time! So my pace was quite respectable :)
Saturday Mar 8, 2008 #
Orienteering (training) 1:15:00 [2] 6.0 km (12:30 / km)
slept:6.0 shoes: Retro green Asics
LOST Richard kindly organised a course for the easter people so we crashed it. It was my first bush course for a year, and i couldn't do it back then so i wasn't expecting to have improved much. And i hadn't. The GPS trace must be hilarious. I didn't get really lost though- just took it very slow and wobbled a lot. Walked 90% and stood still for the rest. All good practice, and it was lovely in the bush. Amazed there are not hundreds of people out there looking for bits of toilet paper on a saturday morning - what else could you possibly want to do?
I wish I learned things quickly, it's hard being such a plonker and a wee bit embarassing. Boltboi and Tooms seem to find everything so easy. I think I'll stick to mountain biking. The simplicity of just pedaling and following a track is more my style of complexity. Bike-bike-bikel.
And i wish my subconscious couldn't type - i'm afraid that tooms will be upset when he is reminded (again) by my insenstive rambling how simple MTBing is. He is already so touchy about his kitten-like riding ability, and i try to make him feel better by pretending that he is not a total punter and that it is a difficult skill.
I wish I learned things quickly, it's hard being such a plonker and a wee bit embarassing. Boltboi and Tooms seem to find everything so easy. I think I'll stick to mountain biking. The simplicity of just pedaling and following a track is more my style of complexity. Bike-bike-bikel.
And i wish my subconscious couldn't type - i'm afraid that tooms will be upset when he is reminded (again) by my insenstive rambling how simple MTBing is. He is already so touchy about his kitten-like riding ability, and i try to make him feel better by pretending that he is not a total punter and that it is a difficult skill.
MTB (fun circles) 1:00:00 [3] 11.0 km (5:27 / km)
shoes: Rocky Mountain Instinct
Stopped at forsyth mill on the way home from mt billy and did a couple of laps of the single track. One with boltboi, and one with john. Although apparently john was there for both laps, but i never saw him on the first one. It is such a twisty little track and always good fun.
Friday Mar 7, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 1:00:00 [3] 25.0 km (2:24 / km)
slept:6.0 shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Oh today last weekend caught up with me in a big way. I felt great in the morning riding to work. Even sent john an sms saying how much i was looking fwd to the beach session. After a long day at work i struggled so much riding to the beach - at one point one of those speed-alert things flashed "22kph....okay" at me, which was so demoralising. Got to the beach in the middle of the session and couldn't make my legs move so i made my self useful shouting motivating stuff at the punters. I think they were very grateful.
Run (beach) 20:00 [3]
shoes: Feet
Beach jog. Stopped halfway for a chat.
Thursday Mar 6, 2008 #
Run 43:40 [3] 7.3 km (5:59 / km)
slept:7.0 shoes: Retro green Asics
Early morning run with Vera, through UWA and Kings Park.
Note
Funny, when i was dreaming about my MTB last night i must have logged onto AP in my sleep....
PS to Jen's subconscious: what is an "imprinted gosling"?? John, perhaps you would know?
PS to Jen's subconscious: what is an "imprinted gosling"?? John, perhaps you would know?
Wednesday Mar 5, 2008 #
Roadie (commute) 28:30 [3] 13.0 km (2:12 / km)
slept:7.5 shoes: Mongoose Roadie
To work
Roadie (commute) 29:00 [3] 13.0 km (2:14 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Home again via the shops. Had to get clothes for john to wear for my cousin's wedding. Although it will be a who's who of triathlon, it is still not right to turn up in bike shorts. Met up with mum, which seemed far more sensible than taking john.
Note
rhr:28 slept:2.0 (sick)
Sick today. Lovesick like a strongly imprinted gosling pining for its mother. Oh Rocky Mountain MTB, how I long to ride you, to admire your geometry, to lube your joints, to feel the caress of your tread on the sweet single trail once again.
Bike bike bike, that's what I like.
xJ
Bike bike bike, that's what I like.
xJ
Tuesday Mar 4, 2008 #
Roadie (Floreat group) 1:17:00 [4] 38.0 km (2:02 / km)
slept:6.5 shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Felt ok when i got up, ok warming up, ok for the first chunk of the ride, then we hit a small hill, which hurt. I kept up ok til freo and along mccabe - i think the pace was down a bit because there were no maverick orienteers pushing the pace off the front (Where were all the orienteers today?? John I know about, he just piked when he found out that it was dark at 5.30 in the morning. Boltboi swore he would be there, and wil said he would start coming too. Or something, perhaps i misheard...) I was hurting so decided to skip the golf course hill. Rode through mosman park and up devil's elbow. Group hadn't caught me so i pottered through to christchurch. Still hadn't caught me and i was enjoying the ride more now so i kept going on my own. So I won the UWA sprint!
Award for the biggest tool of the day goes to the drop-in from the chase group. Someone asked why he was riding with the slow group (i think he probably told them to, so he had a chance to answer) and he said, loudly "well, i'm a bit fatigued from the hills in the pemberton road race on sunday so i thought i'd ride with this group today. Its better than staying in bed, and won't be much harder". Nice way to put down everyone around you. Unfortunately noone pushed him off his bike.
Award for the biggest tool of the day goes to the drop-in from the chase group. Someone asked why he was riding with the slow group (i think he probably told them to, so he had a chance to answer) and he said, loudly "well, i'm a bit fatigued from the hills in the pemberton road race on sunday so i thought i'd ride with this group today. Its better than staying in bed, and won't be much harder". Nice way to put down everyone around you. Unfortunately noone pushed him off his bike.
Roadie (commute) 20:00 [3] 9.0 km (2:13 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Parents' to work 1 to work 2, the shortest way. Via the bakery, and my parents' fridge.
Roadie (commute) 31:00 [3] 13.0 km (2:23 / km)
shoes: Mongoose Roadie
Home from work - thought i'd done it in 22min but turns out my computer got dislodged in a pothole.
Run race (golf course handicap) 24:07 [5] 5.0 km (4:49 / km)
shoes: Retro green Asics
Thought it would be dismal - not sore or puffed but couldn't push. Only thing that kept me running solidly was boltboi, i mean, saz running one pace behind me. She was doing it easily, then got bored of my trudging and passed me on durston. Given how my legs felt, only 30sec slower than last time is much better than expected.
Run warm up/down (plod) 18:00 [3] 3.0 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: Retro green Asics
Warm up and down and run throughs
Note
Oh and i passed the exam. Yay, bring on the ski paddling!
Monday Mar 3, 2008 #
Run (recovery) 20:00 [2]
slept:8.0 shoes: Feet
Ran to the end of the dog beach with vera, john and haggles (had to bring a dog or we might have had to run further!). Not sore but tired, and 20min is about as long as i could go without getting cripplingly hungry today.