Training Log Archive: shanel

Hike from Kalamunda with Grant, Wendy, Tim, Janet and Paula.

A big hill or 2 along the way and a some bush bashing which none of us were geared up for, longest bush bash turns out to be 100m from a parallel track.

C • You know... 3

Run to the beach with Andrew, we did consider doing some Bold Park trails but the beach seemed a bit more appealing. Seemed like hard work to not even get under 5min/k for 10k's

Followed tRickys suggestion and waited at the former RedRock start point for the Broad group to come past just before 6, jumped on the back as the came past but didn't manage to stay with them too long, got dropped heading down Broome St when the crosswind got me.

Got onto Curtin Ave not far in front of a group that had been waiting to at the shops on Claremont Cres., quite a few Glen Parkers amongst them making it look a bit ReddRock like, anyway I jumped on the back of them when they came past.

Passed Julia doing a solo ride with pannier near Leighton. The group caught the Broad group at the Port Beach traffic lights, so I just sat at the back still until I got dropped along with another guy early along Preston Pt Rd. So lots of jumping into random groups after that catching slower people and getting caught be fast people.

Was in a group still at the Raffles but they all stopped so I kept going. One guy followed not far behind me and he soon went past so I sat on his wheel till he got away on the little hill.

Back up to the narrows and there were a couple of Barista guys waiting under the bridge, they were still there after I looped around through the underpass. Eventually the mob caught me at UWA just as I was going to pass a couple of chics I'd already passed before I did the loop and I got stuck behind the girls as the mob went past and had to sprint to get on the back.

Held onto them until Jutland Pde where the guy in front of me dropped off leaving a big gap I couldn't close. They didn't seem to be getting away any more along Victoria Ave, so I tried to smash after them but the effort was futile.

Nice to be back trying to group ride, was working at my limit quite a few times. Good times.

It was deemed too hot for the planned hill rep exercise, so we just had a few goes at an agility test and did some a remapping exercise which I ran a bit of.

To school and round and round the oval with Ryan walking/running. Looked like he was going to struggle this week when I didn't want to run to start with, maybe he smashed his legs on the ride to school, but he got going a bit and managed 5 laps, one more than last week. Sophie did 6, one more than she did last week.

Felt pretty lame driving up to Langford Park rather than riding, but just wanted some MTB practice whilst taking it easy on the legs. Once again had the place to myself, the new carpark is now open and looks very nice and I chose the shadiest spot in the place.

Just kept going round and round till I'd padded out an hour, might have to take the MTBO map next time.

C • New car park 2

Tried to get home from Langford Park, get lunch and getting going as quick as possible, thought I might be able to fit in an extra lap this time but ended up with the usual 2 laps.

Laps seem to be 50m longer than last time on Tashs ski, managed the same average speed for the 1st lap but blew out by a minute on the 2nd lap this time :-( maybe it was hotter this time, maybe I was more tired.

Managed to be a little bit tight for time getting back to school, but still got there with a minute or 2 to spare after an easy run to get there.

Got home and found the tap for my front retic was turned off and once again my lawn is nearly dead, after washing down the ski I spent some time hand watering and starting to think it's a bit sus that my front sprinklers seem to have a problem just about evey week after one of the pipes came off last week.