Training Log: ebuckley

Running (Road) 27:00 [2]
weight:163lbs (rest day) shoes: 2140 White

Very easy jog round the hood.

Running (Track) 1:00:00 [4]
shoes: Grid A2

10x300@63 100R. A bit lame for an interval workout, but one must accept the limits imposed by heat, racing, and age. At any rate, it constituted mid-week quality and I should be fully recovered for the tough workout this weekend.

C • What, you're supposedly acc... 4

Cycling (Road) 45:00 [2]
shoes: Bike:Redline Mono

Then in to work.

Cycling (Road) 2:18:00 [2]
shoes: Bike:Kona Hardtail

Over to Castlewood and back, but not from work because some jackass stole my bike so I had to drive home. Objectively, I should be happy that I chose to ride in on the Redline as that's the cheapest bike I (used to) own. However, it was also my favorite bike and I'll miss it a lot.

C • Bummer II 5

MTB (Trail) 1:18:00 [2]
shoes: Bike:Kona Hardtail

Trails at Castlewood. Everything is in surprisingly good shape, even along the river (which is about a foot below flood stage right now). Saw Jeff, Carrie, and David as well as some Big Shark teammates.

Terrain (Grass) 23:00 [2]

Barefoot on the powerline.

Running (Road) 2:10:00 [2]
shoes: DS Trainers

Tomorrow is predicted to be even hotter, so I did the midweek run home from work today. Waited for the rain to arrive hoping that would cool things down a bit. It did, but it stopped after just 20 minutes and the subsequent half hour was stifling. After that it did cool down a bit.

The real problem was that it's been less than 60 hours since the duathlon so adding any quality work was out of the question. Hopefully I can get up early enough to get to the track tomorrow morning.

Cycling (Road) 45:00 [2]
(rest day) shoes: Bike:Redline Mono

Easy spin in to work.

Cycling (Road) 54:00 [2]
shoes: Bike:Redline Mono

... and back home.

Note

MO State Games Duathalon.

Running (Gravel) 15:00 [2]
shoes: Reebok spikes

Warmup, mostly checking to make sure the spikes (which are very worn and need replacing) had enough grip on the Katy after all the rain last night.

Cycling race (Road) 1:00:36 [4] 24.5 mi (2:28 / mi)
shoes: Bike: Felt TT

MO State Duathlon.

Without a doubt the best TT I've ridden since Nationals in 1991. Good rhythm, on top of the gear, and surprisingly fast. Surprising, because I've done absolutely no big gear work this year. I guess the conventional wisdom that mountain biking helps your TT has some merit.

While the course was fairly hilly by TT standards, it did have a 10-mile section on the flood plain that was just hammering. This was the first time I had an extended section of flat road with the 808 wheels. Damn. Mighty quick when you're used to cruising around on the 29'er. Steady 43KmH, which is about as fast as I go these days. Glad there was no wind, because I was definitely out of practice in the tuck and those wheels would have gotten pushed around quite a bit.

Anyway, the only problem was that with all this going right, I was so far out front that one of the corner marshall wasn't really on the ball and I blew right through a turn. I figured it out a mile and a half later when I got to a T intersection and nobody was there. Six minutes lost. Bummer, but since the primary goal for today was to get a good race quality workout, I wasn't really that upset about it and rode the remainder of the course just as well. Finished the bike in 8th, 3 minutes behind the leader.

I'm not big on moral victories, but subtracting off the six minutes (which is conservative, it may have been more), gives a PR for this course.

C • Bummer 3

C • Congrats 2

Other race (Transition) 37 [1]

Reasonably quick transition given the layout of the TA. The bikes were racked under a shelter and they had the racks pretty close together to get them all to fit. I found it faster to shoulder the bike rather than run alongside it. Actual shoe change was about 15 seconds.

Running (Gravel) 17:22 [4]
shoes: Reebok spikes

Run portion was also good, though not as good as the bike. Took back another minute on the leader and passed 4 to finsish 4th overall, 2 minutes back. Bit of a bummer to miss out on an overall win (those are getting increasingly rare in my advancing years), but still a fine day.

They went the opposite direcion on the Katy this year for the run because one of the bridges was being repaired. No idea what the actual distance was except to note that it was obviously less than the advertised 5K.

Running (Gravel) 1:18:00 [2]
shoes: Reebok spikes

Well, if you can't win, you might as well get some training. So, I put in another 10 miles on the Katy.

Cycling (Road) 1:39:00 [2]
shoes: Bike:Redline Mono

Easy spin with a few pickups thrown in near the end. Not at all sure I'm well enough rested for tomorrow (MO Duathlon) and I certainly don't have enough VO2Max work in, but I suppose I really should go if for no other reason than to get in a really hard workout.