Training Log Archive: acejase

Crawl round Aranda at end of day. Belinda MTBing nearly all day so no chance for me till then. Feeling v ordinary as not much sleep last night and had a gut ache since yesterdays XC.

Chris Cook Memorial XC out at Molongolo Gorge. Cracker day and ripper course including one real pinch hill and a long hill. Ran evenly (see splits) spening most of 2nd lap chasing down a group of 3 that probably started lap about 50m ahead of me. Passed all 3 eventually but one of them had a hell of a kick which he used to great effect in the last 100m to get me back again.

Course had lots of little loops to enable me to watch the real highlight of the race which was the Hoggster-MissJones battle. MJ got away early but when I saw them approaching end of 1st lap they were together. Next spotting was the flat before the long hill and MJ had good form while the Hoggster was 30m back and looking ragged. I gather thats the way it stayed. When you look back say 2 years when Shannon would run 22ish I guess for 5k, the idea of her beating the Hoggster was somewhat fanciful. But today she showed the results of her hard work and just how far she has come. Impressive MJ.

Splits:
16.49
16.45

ANother day of riding too-and-fro Wodes. Twas great - really enjoyed the riding and break between work and home.

Afternoon run with the Hoggster. Concrete path loop with extension into Black Mtn and to Hoggsters house on way back. We are both officially old and living in Canberra as we spent the first 15mins enthusiastically discussing utegate email saga. Had to put in more effort than expected to keep up with the Hoggster.

gentle run from Bob&Judes up Red Hill. Nice to get out in (mostly) daylight and run on red hill. Great views of the Berra and plenty of roos out and about. Federal Golf course also looking in good nick - certainly better than some of the courses I've played on with the lads!

Rode to work and home again! Still havent found a shower but given the cold conditions I braved the potential sweat stink. On the way in each time I thought I might be sweating I took off another layer - it was a sort of strip-ride really.