Training Log Archive: acejase

Best long run for a while to end best week of training for a while. First hour with Patrik & Devil. over Hackett Hill then straight up Ainslie. Patrik took off up AInslie like a mountain goat and I tried to stay within myself, dropping off 20m. Passed Patrik about half way up the hill, he was blowing like one of those things that cleans up leaves. Stayed within sight of Devil to the top. Then down the war memorial side and back to the car where we picked up Stace. Up the triple tri course route up Majura, Patrik turning off before the top to head home. Then down into the pines and a bit of zig zag work (some due to my navigation) before back over the saddle and down to the car. Bit weary over the last hill. Cappucino & focacia at Sfoglia but I was envious of stace's latte & devils poached eggs.

A good week - did something decent on all 5 days of the week plus an easy run on Satdy & todays long run. If it hadnt rained on the Pete I would've made 10hrs! Very social week too exercising with devil, stace, patrik, jo, searlo & brucie.

Reverse classic loop with the Dees. Searlo struggling but at least he is on the way back. Dont know where I got a 171 HR max!

a shocker of a tour de pete. light rain when i got up but looked like it might be ok. at that stage seb & the yellow sub bailed. i knew devil would be there so figured i was up and it might improve. started to look worse by the time we were approaching belconnen magpies golf club so we headed back along southern cross drive, through belco, onto gininderra dve to dickson. still ended up being an acceptable length ride and the rain didnt get much worse - just as it started to soak through the layers of clothing so we started to get cold. made it to sfoglia for nice coffee & raisin toast but didnt stay long as headed to work for hot shower. now huddled in front of heater trying to warm up.

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commuting

Lunchtime run with Bazorak. Along the edge of the lake from the ANU boathouse to carillion island then back over pedestrian bridge at marcus clarke. they were doing the concrete out the front of rob & al's place so I put in "RW 4 AJ" in the wet stuff. nice touch i thought. felt a bit stiff from the cycling and small amount of nerve pain. this weeks becoming a good training week.

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Short version: Did 4 * red Hills with Devil. Pretty tough.

Long version: Faaaark. what the hell am I doin? I had to get up at 5.45am. this actually meant i woke up every half hour between 2 and 5 before waking up in a panic at 5.44:30s. Wasnt as cold as anticipated so wore a bit too many clothes. this was extra handy as riding to meet devil at CSIRO it pissed down for about 1minute so got the clothes wet. Also my Sledge-Goulburn t-shirt does not appear to be made with material that 'wicks away' the sweat. will have to complain to the sledgers who made it. Hills were bloody tough. Worse than Black mtns but this probably has more to do with having done DS Hills last night than anything else. Devil is way better than me on the bike. After 1st one I just turned round and went back down the hill which wasnt enough recovery (about 2mins). All the others I did a loop round the restaraunt to make the recoveries about 1:1. Dont think I could have done another 1 hill even if i set my mind to it. will have to stretch butt & hip big time.
Hills:
5.21(156/163), 5.40(157/165), 5.56(153/159), 6.14(149/154)

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Down Belco way (man the bike lane is a goat track) to meet Devil at CSIRO. Then over through state circle to red hill. back via the Double Shot at Deakin which is perfectly placed as a down hill roll from Red Hill then back usual way to work. The coffee at the Double Shot is awesome but food mixed. i've only really had the fruit toast as everything else is a bit exxy to my mind but the toast is nothing special. Unlike the coffee which is sppeeeeecccial. Devil agreed with me on coffee but thinks he will go a cake next time instead of his jam croissant.

commuting.

usual warms ups and downs before & after hills with stace.

8*DS Hills. Felt lot better than alst week and times showed it - all about 5-7s faster than last week. HR monitor certainly performed a lot better - it must've heard me threatening to get it fixed.
Hills:
73(131/160), 76(144/163), 72(149/168), 74(147/169), 74(148/167), 73(149/167), 72(150/167), 74(149/168)

Confirmed Jo & I won Course 3 Groups at Timber Tops. Obv I'm stoked.

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yep another days orienteerering. my last for a little while though. I had the day off so picked Jo up at her work and out to Campbell park to immerse her in the intense technical challenge of Campbell Park before she leaves for Ukraine on Wednesday. You cant get a greater challenge than compassing across a vague spur to a 10cm termite mound. It would be nigh on impossible if you couldnt see for about a kilometre in either direction. We were getting quite good by the middle - managing to pick rubbed out bits of ground where termite mounds used to be. Unfortuantely our 1994 version of the map failed us a little bit at the end.

Still waiting to see if Jo and I won the 'Groups' section of Course 3 yesterday at Timber Tops.

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