Training Log Archive: MTBjen

Lovely swim at the beach after a long nap. It was a good muscle loosener, and the effects lasted exactly as long as the swim did. After that i couldn't walk again. The dog tried to drown me even though i explained carefully that i am not a life raft. Now i have claw marks in my cleavage which people at work are too afraid to ask about.

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Event: Upside down rogaine
 

Thanks tRicky for such a fun event! I am broken now.
This was my second rogaine, and i was a bit worried, since it was unlikely to have as much of a focus on lunch as the first. It turns out you do a heap of walking in night events though, so i was fine. Didn't get tired until we ran for about 2 hours after the sun came up.
It was hard to run, even though it was open farmland - turns out this does not mean springy, green grass, but actually field after field of spiky knee-high ex-canola plants (which you can only run through if you don't lift your feet off the ground and goose-step a bit) and lots of little rocks hidden under grass. Also about 3 million fence crossings - I only electrocuted tRicky once, which he was a bit upset about but I think once is pretty good, considering. We crossed a pipeline twice. And the cattle-swampy Williams river a few times. Also we probably crossed some boundaries into poor humour. They put all the controls on top of hills, but at least that makes them easier to find.
tRicky is an amazing navigating genius ("you say that about everyone" says John. But that is not true. I only said it about JT and Fletch but it turns out they are rank amateurs. tRicky only made 2 small errors all night, and one of them really was Andre's fault :-) I am so impressed with the precision - i always thought rogaining nav was quite vague until now.) and my only job for the evening was to keep up, which i tried to do.
Couldn't do it today if i had to - we went to the beach and it took me 25min to get from the edge of the ocean back to the car, even with John letting me draft behind him. My feet are a world of pain and my hip flexors are unhappy. Feeling far better after a long nap, and looking forward to going back to bed ASAP after dinner.
We did really, really well, for the record. I think I shall bask happily for a while. We covered something like 61km. And i get TWO BADGES to sew onto my floppy hat. 1st mixed and 2nd overall. We were 200 points off beating Wil (well done Wil and Ben! They were pretty awesome) and 400 in front of 3rd.

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I worked out how to get some speed out of the commuterbike this morning- it takes a whole lot of well-timed, extremely fast spinning, some really hard powering up hills, and a lot of shameless aerodynamic posturing. Great fun though. I am feeling as bouncy as a large hairy dog with a fluffy toy bunny.

Finally the stars aligned and Tooms passed me and picked me up before I had to ride up Hale Rd into the headwind. Turns out my hand signal for "stop, i'm tired" means "feeling strong, see you at home" in Toomey-speak so I'm lucky he stopped - we will have to figure something out for next time.

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Did the warmup, some run throughs, a heap of stretching then went home. Best training session ever!

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Fun ride to work- amazing how much easier it is without tired legs.

Short commute straight into a handy 25 knot headwind around the river. Possibly my slowest EVER ride.

Laps of Matilda Bay with John, practicing the O'Leary drills. It feels great paddling properly, I have definitely gotten faster, and even managed to beat John in one sprint, when he didn't realise we were racing.
It was the only vaguely sheltered place, so it was pretty busy in the bay with outriggers, surf boats, other paddlers, plus two groups of UWA ODC kayakers milling in circles.

Slept horribly, so i had a quick nap after lunch. Woke up at 5pm! I'm taking this taper week pretty seriously... no Kings Park loops this week either. Not going to log a trip to the beach with the dog.

Really muggy when I left but slightly better by the time I got to town. Just a bit faster than rogaine pace today... That was the last run before Saturday.

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Too hot today to even walk to the kitchen, let alone do Reabold Hill reps. So I decided it was a good day to start my rogaine taper, and rolled very gently into town.

Went home the scenic way. Mmm. I might as well say that, because noone is going to believe that an Australian MTB Orienteering team member, when on her bike, commuting the same route for 14 months, could get lost on the way home.

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