Training Log Archive: shanel

Time and distance includes a lot of driving on course. Hard to believe the distance though.

Pushing the limits of alarm clock capabilities with a 4am wake up to be picked up by Mark at 5am and be ready to start vetting at first light.

Bit foggy head in the last 10-20km particularly in the valleys.

First thing Mark noticed on the map (which I hadn't) was the lack of north lines or any other grid lines. After a few minutes we found a solution, using a street directory as a ruler to copy north lines from an old map that we were "fortunate" mark had bought along.

Got to the first control to find the setters had only put out setting plates, with no tape, so expected we may have difficulty spotting the plates.

Very cold early on, coldness on the face made me suspect it was below zero as it felt colder than a near zero bike commute. Suspicion confirmed by -1.8 recorded by BOM at Wandering.

Only major delay for the day was Mark having trouble with the most remote control on the map having run in a bit fast, whilst I was driving a couple of controls (which were undriveable, so I had to run half of them anyway). So we had to walk all the way back in again , stupid setting plates can be hard to find by themselves.

Knocked up one short of half the controls, so should hopefully get the rest done tomorrow, even negotiated an extra 15 mins of sleep time.

Nice paddle, was getting good speed without too much effort early on but it didn't last too long and was a stuggle to keep the speed up on the way back.

C • Hill 2

Delayed at the start as we waited for someone who'd left home without his helemt and had to go back for it and I think never showed up.

I was a bitt off the back on the Preston Point climb, but the guy who always gets dropped was further off the back, so I waited a bit to give him a chance to catch up, but he wasn't closing so I caught back up the the others.

I finally decided to go to the front along Burke Dve, but got someone decided we should let the dropped guy catch up, I think a few doubled back, and we waited at Canning Hwy, still no sign of dropped guy we continued again.

I went to the front again on tthe run to Mt Henry, then towed the line the rest of the way.

The Barista mob turned on behind us at the south side of the narrows (we were running later than normal), but they crossed Riverside at the narrows whilst we looped round through the underpass and they were long gone by the time we got to Mounts Bay Rd, so I couldn't catch them for fun times through Dalkeith.

C • Shambles 6

Only Andre and Fletch at the start, so nearly an Espresso team training run.

3 x Grass Farm loops at tempo pace with only a jog recovery, guesstimated a target pace of 4:30/k.

9:57 - 4:29/k
9:56 - 4:28/k
9:55 - 4:28/k

Longer than planned recovery after the first rep. to talk to Wil who'd turned up despite not being on our team. Started the 2nd rep slow chatting to Wil and had to pick up the pace after he dropped off.

I'm still not sure what my target pace should have been, from the vdot 49, the table gives me a 10k pace of 4:12/k or 15k pace of 4:25/k. So not sure if I was going a bit slow, or if you allow for the terrain it's about right.

Darling Downs to Claremont + freeway detours + Mosman Park

I failed to leave home early enough for my super silly plan of riding to work via Jarrahdale. So I just added the reverse renegades from UWA, shortcut to McCabe St and looped round the water tower and doubled back to Claremont.

Might keep the Jarrahdale mission as a long term plan since I think riding home from work after doing that ride in the morning will be a killer. Especially if conditions are anything like todays ride home.

Claremont to Darling Downs

Light rain seemed to be settling in soon after leaving work, so I stopped and put my rain jacket on.

Had a follower take a turn before Canning Hwy, but after I took the lead again he didn't have another go.

Rain continued to somewhere around Leach Hwy. After saying to my boss earlier today that whilst it's dark and wet riding in winter at least there's no sea breeze, SW'er was blowing hard all the way home, oh make that a southerly, which expians the lack of usual cover from the SW'ly most of the way between Mt Henry and Rowley Rd.

At Least life got easier along Rowley Rd even if there wasn't any tail breeze.

Event: Gunapin (Boomer)
 

With Sophie riding her bike and Belinda towing Ryan in the bike trailer.