Training Log Archive: PowA

Ride to loosen up legs from weekend. Strong wind from southish. Good for riding north again, good for the sprint along Teralba road, second fastest overall Strava time.

Qld MTBO Champs Long. Second. 2 minutes behind MRS. Think I won 8 of 11 splits. After yesterday's effort to 1 in middle was careful to 1 today, plus it was uphill from start to highest point on map. Poor route choice to 4, then even more poorly executed cost 5 minutes. Route choice to 10 involved riding on a fire road that had been mulched and was very slow. MRS beat me by 40 secs going other route.

Happy with riding speed and fitness. Won 80% of splits for the 3 races. Was able to push hard to end on all 3 races. Not so happy with navigation lapses.

C • Happy 3

Long Distance Course 3 - Splits

Event: QLD MTBO Champs
 

Qld MTBO Champs Sprint. MP. First go at SI-air and was having such fun riding really fast past controls I wasn't checking all numbers. Got wrong control on wrong man made feature. I think second ever miss punch. Winning time about 6 minutes slower though MR-S who also MP was only 3 minutes behind.

C • Tough lesson 4

Qld MTBO Champs Middle. Better than this morning in that I didn't MP. Terrible navigation and route choice to 1, 2 and 4. Was 4 minutes behind MRS by then. Snapped out of it then and managed to only make a couple of minor errors after that. End up in first but more from others making errors than my performance. Hopefully wake up with brain in gear from the start tomorrow.

Sprint Course 3 - Splits

Middle Distance Course 3 - Splits

Afternoon ride from accommodation to Bom Bom, short lap and then back.

Nice day for a ride. Last proper ride before QLD MTBO champs on the weekend. Maybe get an easy ride around Bom Bom tomorrow afternoon if time permits.

Swooped by a magpie on the Fernleigh on the way to and from.

C • ALREADY ??? 3