Training Log Archive: Vaala

Up to the tops where it was cold and windy and because we are not super tough Godzoners we didn't last long and came back down again where it was warm. Then we rode to the bike shop and got our bike signed off for the race by the bike people. Very productive.

From Bowenvale up through Vic Park, along the tops and all that jazz to the track end past Coopers Knob and back again, down the valley. Legs felt heavy and full of tired cycling-ness for the first hour then felt good for an hour or 2 then legs felt awful in a different way for the last 45 minutes. So awful I walked some bits of the downhill! Bit drizzly and cold for a fair bit of the time making some of the bushy, rocky sections slippery and I did manage to fall over once.

Little walk up the valley and back. Legs feeling tired.

Nice little tandem ride with M up Huntsbury/down Major Aiken, up and down Holliss and up Dyers to the SOT and back down. Pretty nice night out. Super warm.

Slow run up and over to the hutch and up the sheep tracks in dry creek then over Mt Vernon, round wtich hill and down the valley where I bumped into Boyd. Stopped for a chat then tried not to get tripped over by several dogs and their owners on the rest of the way down. I've never seen so many people in the valley. Normally it's almost deserted.

Out to the TT and a bit of a warmup beforehand.

Shorter course tonight with a very un-tandem-friendly turnaround so we ended up in the gravel! Felt like a headwind on the way out and a gale headwind on the way back! Felt awful and poor M felt sick!

Back home again. Kinda grovelling the whole way. Miserable headwind for much of the way.