Training Log Archive: MTBjen

Laugh if you like but i am going to log my sore tooth as an injury, because it stopped me training for a day! More than a day, actually, because there were a few days the week before last too. Luckily i have a very nice dentist who came in on sunday to fix it so i still get a christmas holiday :)
The lesson is, don't avoid seeing the dentist for 5 years because you know your wisdom teeth need to come out. They will still need to come out, only they will hurt more in the meantime.

C • Pain Factor 10

Brilliant fun ride with John, Dalto and Fletch from Pickering Brook. Started on the single track, rode up the WNM trail (only 1 proper and 2 half stops!) then through to the pink tag up Gungin. Rode halfway down the car trail then checked out the new orange tag track which has been marked but not yet built. It has a lot of promise :) and joins up with the not-blue trail which we rode up, then along the blue tag - link - up gungin - back home the soft gravelly firetraily way cos the roadies like it. Then back up the (ew) road. To the ice cream shop.
Boltboi's shiny new bike is very shiny and new - looks lovely although he is still getting used to it. John riding well, Fletch very strong on the roadie bits. We shall have to get him out more often if he is turning into a roadie.

C • Turning into a roadie 2

Left late and after 5min (at the bottom of the hill) had to turn around and go home to get my helmet which John had forgotten to tell me to put on.
So i rode really hard, which was a lot of fun, until i nearly got cleaned up by some dodgy, unthinking commuter, who came around a blind corner towards me on the wrong side of the bike path! It turned out to be none other than Perth's own favourite Lunatic in Lycra, Inside Cover regular and vocal champion of cycle path rule-following, tRicky. Who ignored me.

C • helmet 16

Just enough roadies to keep me going this morning. Didn't see tricky though, he has been hiding this week.

Pootle home

Caught the southerly from Freo to Floreat with Dangerman, Andre, Mark and the lying Mr Toomey, who spun all sorts of crap to trick me into getting out there, so i shall never admit that i enjoyed it, just on principle. Well some of it anyway, those brief moments of exhilaration wedged between the prolonged bouts of petrifying terror. As opposed to the other types of terror.
I didn't fall out, not even in the break zone, but perhaps i would be less scared if i did every now and then, so i could learn not to be scared of it.
Caught some great runs, and some really big "if you stop paddling hard you'll get squashed" type waves. Excellent fun. Andre bailed at Swannie, and Mark bailed at the pizza shop, so only the three hardened idiots made it all the way to Floreat where the waves got bigger and bigger and bigger.
Good fun in a strange way. I just wish John would stop using his tricky sabotage techniques to try and make me fall off (ie, talking to me, or paddling past in a distracting manner, 50m away).
Worth all the fear just for the most awesome flying fish!
My grimacing muscles are going to be so sore tomorrow.

C • Enjoyment/ Fear 2

Commute, commute. I think i am just getting tireder and slower, the more i rest. I shouldn't feel this tired, I should be wanting to train by now.

Ran with John et al for a while, then a slow boring plod around Herdsman and home, to get back in time so I could go out for dinner.

Commute, commute.

commute, commute

second slowest ever and 2min 20sec off my PB. Need I say more! It turns out that not training doesn't make you faster.
On the other hand, yay for Caitlin!

C • Bugger 11

Tooms' Golf Course 5k TT - Splits

Not an intentional rest day and definitely not restful, but sat at home doing some long-overdue admin stuff then ran around doing stupid errands and suddenly the day is over and i'm definitely not keen enough for an evening windtrainer.
After all, its not January yet :)

C • Wed run 9