Training Log Archive: MTBjen

Planned a longish ride but wasn't motivated enough, so I did hills instead to make myself do some work.
Durston, Kalinda, 8x Reabold, Kalinda, Glenelg. Glenelg as usual was much harder than any of the reabold efforts.

I came up with a simple-sounding plan to take the flat pedals off John's Gary Fisher Flumpcycle and put them on my Yeti. Unsurprisingly, touching something as simple as the pedals on one of John's bikes produced so much horrid black goo that before I could continue I had to extensively degrease the pedals, my hands and forearms, and even the pedal spanner, before any of the above could go near the Yeti. It took two whole rags, after one got overwhelmed by the black goo. Eventually the black goo receded slightly and the plan worked out, although I did have to enlist some muscle to get one pedal off the Yeti. (Apologies to John for ringing Danger to ask him for help before asking John to try. I had to promise to tell everyone how strong and manly he turned out to be, against all my expectations, which I am now doing...)

C • Genetic 2

At mcgillivray. I managed to do the warmup, run throughs, and then later a cooldown. Fantastic training, I'll be fit in no time.

More intervals with (well, near) Danger. Really nearly didn't go but felt pretty good riding.
1,2,3,4,5,6 min efforts with 1,2,3,3,3,3 min recoveries. Extra 1 min hard at the end when I had some extra time. Barely made it home up the last hill!

At TTAC. I notice Edmund hasn't been logging his crèche visits, presumably because he has yet to open his eyes in the crèche, probably doesn't even know he's been there.

Last time I ran at the grass farm I walked, so this could only be an improvement! Goal was to keep up on the warm up, which I did. Then I slowed down a lot for the first rep so that I'd have a hope of surviving a second, which I also did, although the second rep was a min slower due to walking most of the big hill.
Good fun. Felt wrecked after so maybe I'm starting to get fit :-)
Bailed on rep 3 along with everyone else, to rescue john's mum from my perfectly behaved child, as it turns out.
Oh and my two loops were 13.02 and 14.03