Training Log Archive: MTBjen

Loop from the Dell with Dangerman. John and Boltboi were out hucking it on some gnarly fire trail so there were no wannabe roadies around. Since Martin a) likes mountain biking and b) has no morals, we went up Gungin and down the wrong side, did the Kalamunda loop and the brilliant fun bit of B******** track past the Camel Farm and back to the Dell.

Met up with Susan, Ngaire and Mark for a social (very social) ride around the little oven loop (plus memory lane/white tag). Good fun. Had a nice lunch at the Mundaring Weir pub after (where there is a pool! More pubs should have pools).

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Spent the afternoon pottering at Guildford. It is going to be a most excellent map, really tricksy. Some of it unmappably tricksy. Double-decker courtyards, blind-ended alleyways, weird little gardens under staircases, even the odd boulder. Should be fun :)

Not certain about distance/time, still no carbon fibre cycle computer.
From home, fought into the easterly to Midland to meet Boltboi and Stolly80, then let Stolly drag me up greenmount. Once we turned off at Mundaring it was a bit more sheltered, and the rest of the ride was a good solid undulating hills ride through to Pickering Brook and eventually down some precipitous cliff edge into Gosnells, where we spent the afternoon cheering for John (again) while he (again) ran FAST and also swam and rode a bike a bit.

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Not sure about distance yet, Juffy STILL hasn't put up Routegadget, the slacker.
I meant to jog, but i got a bit riled up by all those boys and ended up running pretty hard and even enjoying it. Yay I got my seven!

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Had a long analysis of Hageby - I've decided I can learn a lot from his carefree and pleasurable approach to life. Grapes are great. Tennis balls are pretty cool. And so many other girls come up to pat him and talk to him that I always have friends to gossip with. Threw the ball for him too after my salt water flounder at the beach. I like the beach.

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Big head wind today. I was taking it easy for a while but got distracted seeing how fast i can make my legs spin before the pedals start clunking uncoordinatedly. I'm getting better at it, and occasionally can even keep up with the odd roadie for a while. They don't seem to like it, possibly because I look like a complete moron. I'm starting to think it was someone on a single speed who knocked tRicky out the other day.

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Thought i saw a very fat and slow flying fish, but it was actually a cormorant swimming along completely submerged except for its long neck, carrying a big fish in its beak. That was pretty awesome, and made my whole commuting week :)

Warmup/short cooldown
6 x 600m on 3.36 with about 200m jog recoveries.

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Meant to be 10 reps but I had tired tired legs and a dinner date. I struggled through the whole thing, couldn't quite hit 5km pace. The 6th was really slow so i hammered the last 200m to make it up. Left hip flexor suddenly very sore again but I did a heap of stretching so it will be fine tomorrow I'm sure.

More roadie games with Old Man Tooms.... as usual it was a nice fun social evening ride until we turned North at Freo. First we had to ride hard cos we could. Then we had to see if we could crack 60kph going along Cott Beach. Then John said he saw "a fat man and his girlfriend" up ahead so we'd better catch them. I thought it was odd that although we were going about 55kph we were not gaining all that fast. It turns out this was because they were not fat, they were lean, cut roadies, and the girl had a roadie attitude so wide that we needed two lanes to pass her. We rode behind them for a bit, John not wanting to ruin his game by passing on a downhill (and he wanted to see how much he could annoy them with his "brrrrrr...." wheelie noise). Up the hill past the army barracks John made his move. As he passed, the girl pulled out too- she wasn't having ANY of this. And wasn't going to let me in either. They were now riding three abreast, and since i don't like to be separated from John, my only option was too pass all three of them, and ride away up the hill.
Ouch. We did ride away, but unfortunately they followed us all the way to the end of Challenger, by which time my poor rogaining legs were toast, and i wobbled all the way home. John apparently hit 68 on Empire but i didn't even get to see it.
Oh sooo much fun :)

The beach was really, really nice this morning. I only log it when it is particularly lovely :)

Flat plod from the pool around Perry Lakes/McGillivray and back with John and the hardened rogainers Wil and Nicki.

Feel good this morning!

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Home

Did the warmup and cooldown with the running group, then while they did their 2k reps i did a couple of 400s then ran to the beach for a swim. Heap of stretching. Feeling good now except left hip flexor has seized up.

Slow, slow. Felt ok on the bike, my riding muscles are fine, but i'm still pretty tired and can't walk.