Training Log Archive: Tim C

Bartinney2Bartinney trail race in Stellenbosch.

Flat 1st 4km of which half was road, then 13km of climb and 3km descent (300m net uphill race).

In hindsight, started off too fast, wanting to keep with Raydon and Peter (67 and 63min half marathoners..), but felt comfortable at the time, so didnt back off until we hit the climb and my legs suddenly felt rather crappy. next 3/4km werent fun and Jono started pulling away as well. Recovered a bit, but never felt great, so was just a long slog up to the top and then the descent (which was way too windy) down to the farm was just a cruise in trying to save the legs a bit.

Ended 4th behind Raydon (1:20ish), Peter (1:22:30) and Jono (1:24) (though officialy 5th because some idiot took a short cut near the end and wouldn't admit it..)

Way too fast a trail race for me. Pretty much no technical running (mostly jeep track and smooth bike singletracks), so hopefully Jonkers next week will be a bit better.

Jog back from Newlands forest after a bit of dog walking.

C • Race 1

Flat-oval-flat

Mostly easy Newlands forest with some efforts thrown in to remind the legs that they have to actually work this weekend (+to get some strava segments).

Letting the legs get some bounce back.

To the oval, a few laps around there and then back via bremner and tennis courts

Starting to get dark early these days :(

Jono was keen to hit up some different trails today, so took the "Long" (25min) drive out to silvermine.

Neither of us had done much there, so just planned a quick 15ish km route out to Chapman's and then back along blackburn ravine+old fisherman's path.
Terrain turned out to be a fair amount more technical than we expected+ a lot more climb, so ended up getting back a bit late and almost getting locked in the reserve, but luckily the San Parkes guys waited for us.

Really stunning trails+views and not a single other person out there. Definitely need to go more often!

Lovely evening on the trails with Jono and Kevin (American exchange student).

From the flat, then pretty much oceans route, but finishing off past Rhodes men and down the fenceline.

Always nice having fresh legs while others don't ;)