Training Log Archive: Bomb

gym at race elements. trained with Dan this week (he trains hard and makes me look bad - I'm used to training with Imo who's lazy and makes me look good!), and with new trainer Brooke. She's ok, but can't walk and talk at the same time, so things don't go very fast!
back doing big weights now - and sore already!

trolls ride. quicker than the usual wednesday, but it seems i'm getting some cycling fitness back.

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mtb ride at daisy hill with Dan. haven't been out on the mtb in ages, so I was a total muppet. going v slow, but didn't crash which was good (i usually always do). started to get the hang of it in the end - better do some more in the next few weeks before the mont.
got a flat tyre right at the end, but luckily it held just enough air to get me back to the car.

from st lucia to woodford with the smiddy group. pretty slow - especially for the first half, but then things got going ok. police escort over mt mee was cool, and they closed off the road for the decent.

first ride back with trolls in a while. I seem to be lacking a bit of go on the bike at the moment. there was a mid-ride flat in the group so I got a bit of a rest half way, but got dropped on the corso and struggled on the hills. coffee at bar merlo was worth it though!

river ride

first visit to yoga for a while. it hurt.

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a mostly fairly slow ride from boonah with Dad and his cycling group. nice coffee afterwards in boonah.

river ride with Dan and Lisa. tried to make pancakes for breakfast, but got some gluten free pancake mix that just made mush. ended up with the usual scrambled eggs instead.

decided to kill the last of the jet lag with a nice mtb ride - so went up the coast for the qld mtbo champs. nice cruise around the forest - heaps of fun mud... and ended up winning by 46mins (was there a cafe I didn't find?)

entertainment for the day was provided by a local loser who managed to roll his ute a couple of hundred metres from the assembly area (quite lucky he didn't make it to the assembly area or he probably would have taken a few people out!), and by James's bike, which was so humilated by all the shit we were giving it, that it repeatedly attempted suicide by throwing off various essential components, and thereby sending James into the nearest ditch or tree. He eventually gave up before he or the bike got too damaged, but it was all a bit of a sorry (but v funny) sight.

spent the rest of the afternoon building my new bike!! got the frame back on friday - fixed and painted, and now its half built. putting the pivots back in the frame was a bit of a mission, but it all seems to work ok now. still waiting on a couple of contributions from various bike sheds, but I should soon have a very bling dually built from left over parts.