Training Log Archive: Stijn

Early morning climb at Strubens. Put some more work into my 24 project - I think I have the sequence sussed out... now to link it all up and hold on until those chains are clipped! 16,19,18.

Evening session at Strubens. I've got myself an awesome new project to work - it's a pretty sustained 24 and may take a few sessions to figure out! 17, 17, 19, 19.

My usual 5km route. Didn't take my watch so the time is a guess.

@ Wits bouldering wall.

Evening session at Strubens in the cold. brrrr... 14, 18, 18.

Ran a TT of my 5km Melrose route but eased into it for the first 5 mins, keeping the HR below 170. Then opened the taps to see how fast I could go. Would be nice to get this down to 4 min/km..

Morning session at the Chosspile - really hot and humid today. Managed to onsight a 23 there and I'm very happy about that :-) 16, 23, 19, 20.

@ Wits Bouldering Wall.

I'm logging this as Mountain Biking as Kevin took care of the nav. I just held on as best I could since I hadn't been on the bike in 2 months... The weather was much better today and not too hot either. We headed off to the NW corner first and cleaned out the high-scoring controls there. It was fun dicing some of the other teams there with many different route choices used. From there, we continued in a clockwise direction and gunned it to the finish once we were on the Southern border of the property. Once again, a little conservative on our finishing strategy, with 8 minutes to spare. We finished in 5th place with 113 points. Really enjoyed the whole weekend!

I was teamed up with Kevin for the weekend and the furthest we had both run in training was 16km. Much pain was in store for us :-) It poured the whole day which actually made the running conditions quite comfortable. We started with the SW loop and headed anti-clockwise around the perimeter, collecting all the high-scoring controls at a good jog. After 3 hours, we had covered 25km and collected 80 points but the wheels pretty much fell off at that point. We spent the remaining 3 hours walking/limping/jogging and tried to salvage as many points as possible on the way to the finish. It turned our that we were a little too conservative and finished with 16 minutes to spare on 112 points, 6th place of the open male teams.

A good session at the Wits bouldering wall - need to do more of this to get my endurance up.

Took a short, easy run through Melrose just to keep the legs ticking over for the Rogaine this weekend.

My mind wasn't really in it today - was getting scared off by anything that didn't suit my style. Still managed to salvage the day with some high quality (and fun) lines. 15, 16, 19.