Training Log: tRicky

Road bike (commute) 54:18 [2] 27.18 km (2:00 / km)
slept:6.1

So, so tired.

For the first time ever (since living in Forrestfield anyway), I encountered another cyclist on Tonkin Hwy! This dude came up behind me at Leach Hwy, then we both went and after a time he passed, then we took turns drafting until he went straight past the cycle off ramp just before GE Hwy and I didn't, fearing the repercussions should the cycle police be out in force.

Uneventful ride from there until I spotted a familiar Juffy like figure at the Lord St bridge looking all forlorn with his flat tyre, so I stopped and offered to chat. He gratefully accepted my offer so we chatted, then his tyre was inflated, then we went for a leisurely roll to Subiaco at which point some roadie passed me and I chased him but he ran away in the opposite direction. I forget what happened to Juffy in all this.

Road bike 52:32 27.15 km (1:56 / km)
slept:6.0 shoes: Giant OCR 0

Took it easy for most of the trip in preparation for this weekend but I passed a fully decked out roadie on the railway line somewhere near Meltham. He hooked on; I took off. He tailed me all the way to Claisebrook where he took over, then I tailed him to the Ent Centre Bridge where we thanked each other and went our separate ways. Highlight of the trip was at the crossing just after McIver where there were pedestrians all over the path. The roadie calls out bike, then again, to some loser walking on the wrong side of the path with headphones in his ears. Loser turns around, sees us and pulls out the headphones then mutters some obscenity about cyclists as we roll past. I just call out 'Says the guy with the headphones'. Not a quality comeback but seriously? I cannot treat pedestrians as real people when they do stupid crap like this.

Road bike (commute) 1:02:52 [2] 24.59 km (2:33 / km)
shoes: Giant OCR 0

Finally got around to looking at accommodation whilst in NSW but only managed to book the first three days before I remembered I had a friend living in Orange so would try and score free housing for part of it.

Lacklustre ride home via the post office, then off to pick up O-gear for the weekend and look at a kitty.

Road bike (commute) 47:18 [3] 27.12 km (1:45 / km)
slept:8.25 shoes: Giant OCR 0

Yay an easterly, yay!

Yay!

:-)

C • Is it just me? 4

Road bike (commute) 39:28 [2] 16.08 km (2:27 / km)
shoes: Giant OCR 0

Ride to a rogaine meeting. I was a tad late, trying to finalise the NavSprintDash map beforehand.

I kind of knew my way to the place. Boy I'd hate to see the GPS trace on this one!

Road bike (commute) 50:48 [2] 17.11 km (2:58 / km)
shoes: Giant OCR 0

Damned easterly! I really need to sugest these silly rogaine meetings start earlier. It's ridiculous what time I get home some nights.

Trek/jog (commute) 30:00 [2]
slept:8.75 (rest day)

I had an accounting conference in Perth today and caught the bus in so about the only strenuous thing I did was walk from the Sheraton to Wil's work on the far side of West Perth. Since I overtook a guy on his bike riding up to Kings Park I get to log it :-)

Road bike warm up/down 8:30 [2] 3 km (2:50 / km)
slept:6.0 shoes: Giant OCR 0

Another early start, 4:30 today! Ride from the south end of the Narrows over to Langley Park.

Multisport race (BRW Corporate Triathlon) 48:56 [5] 14.4 km (3:24 / km)

w00t, a triathlon! Teamed up with two guys from work to put in a solid effort. We had a relative speedster up first, the rock in the middle and me anchoring the team.

When it was my turn, I blazed away in the swim in the yucky Swan River, hammered on the cycle and blitzed the field in the run. Not surprisingly my legs were sore after getting out of the swim but I still managed a solid ride, and had no-one overtake me on either the ride or the run. Shame I can't say the same about the swim, where I did breastroke the whole way. Cycle had the easterly all the way out to UWA then a slog all the way back. Sat on about 42kph on the way out; 32kph on the way back. Transitions need a bit of work too, especially when I can't find my shoes and end up knocking my teammate's bike onto the ground in my scramblings :-/

Our team finished 108 out of 459 so a decent effort from three complete hacks.

400m swim 12:48 (! - why is it most other people can swim?)
10km cycle 20:48 (including both transitions or about 17:20 without)
4km run 15:20 (19th overall out of over 1300, yeah, bitchin')

Total 48:56, six seconds behind our first guy who smashed me in the swim leg.

C • Cycle time? 1

Road bike warm up/down 7:30 [2] 2.8 km (2:41 / km)
shoes: Giant OCR 0

Ride back to my conveniently parked car.

C • So why was the ski on the roof? 2

Metr-O/Sprint O 1:30:00 [0]
shoes: Keen Sandals

Walking around the ECU campus checking control locations and making minor updates to the map.

Metr-O/Sprint O 33:27 [3] ** 6.35 km (5:16 / km)
shoes: Salomon XT Wings

Running the two sprint courses to make sure they were at least close to the advertised distances. I shouldn't get (m)any complaints in that department. Probably shouldn't log the routes (yet).

Paddling 1:17:38 [2] 10.68 km (7:16 / km)
shoes: Fenn XT

A frigging paddle.

C • Slowy! 3

Road bike (commute) 54:01 [2] 19.68 km (2:45 / km)
shoes: Giant OCR 0

A very late the usual.

Some bogans yelled out of their car window at me so when I caught them at the next set of lights I yelled right back at them! They took it in good humour and didn't run me over.

This appears to be a very slow time. It must have been windy and I must have been tired but I can't remember.

Rogaining (vetting) 5:01:15 [2] 19.93 km (15:07 / km)
slept:4.5 shoes: Salomon XT Wings

Short night's sleep where I decided I would go paddling then I wouldn't but I managed to not turn off my alarm so it woke me at paddling time (5:50am) but I didn't get up so dozed until 8am. Still had to go out and vet the rest of the course though.

I am so glad I am not doing this event. Some of the watercourses are utter, utter rubbish. I actually moved one control because even though it was in a scenic location, it was virtually impossible to get in and out of unless you went through the nearby OOB farm, which I did, or happened to find one difficult to find track to get in. When I spoke to the setters later they mentioned about this one fantastic control in a really scenic location, then I asked which one it was and it happened to be the very one I'd moved. Oh well!

Other than that, it was a plodding day and I actually dropped one from the vetting so that I could do some MTBing whilst it was still light. Bad vetter! My punishment seems to be ten tick bites.

MTB Orienteering 44:00 [3] 11.88 km (3:42 / km)
shoes: Giant Trance 2

A shorter than planned MTBO training session at Langford Park. I started on dusk, stopped after about 100m to make sure my wheels weren't about to fall off, then twice more to tighten up the map board, then finally got going. I had copied the three courses from the 2008 event and originally planned a smash-fest on the short then some map memory on the long but ended up just riding the medium. It got dark by about the third control and so it was down to the handlebar mounted Ay-Ups, which are no good for map reading. Managed to get 6/10 done then couldn't see the map at all anymore so went home. Definitely a good lesson in map memory but I think I failed. In future I'll need to acquire the helmet mounted lights.