Training Log Archive: HubNukin'

To host site, to Kanata Lakes then to Timm Rd. for RH's MTB and foot-o. Great event!

Took a ride home due to injury. Boo...it was a beauty day and I missed out on another hour's commuting :(

Time to be adjusted. Great time. Report to come...

Foot-O portion of the event. Good times!

Jaunt in the bush teaching 6 newbies how to use a map and compass. I think they generally got it. The hung-over guys I think grasped the most!

Interesting conversations about how to keep feet dry. I couldn't partake as it is pretty futile over that terrain.

Mossies just as intense as during WT; forgot both net. Damn. Beautiful day though!

Got to have a nice morning ride out to Outie's place to pick up the projector for this evening's "AR Navigation Clinic". Got to meet OutieJR. Very cute and big feet!

Clinic went pretty well. Tonne of information to get across in such a short time.

Brought the big bike to work today and rode up on the roads to Camp Fortune. Nothing like doing a 1h 10min warm-up for a 1h17min race :) This is the paved portions of the way there and back. I buried my rear light in my backpack so decided to take trails all the way home. Did touch a street until the 200m leading up to my house!

Sunset Series race #2, my first of the season and looking at the schedule, maybe my last. Now that I'm a "masters" athlete in the MTB world, I started with the big guns. Only 10 or so riders in our wave. I stuck with them down the gravel road until the first climb and suddenly the weekend's race showed up in my legs...ugh. I stayed in front of Viper so at least I wasn't last :) Being in that spot, I didn't have any traffic at all (save SuperWoman who started in the wave behind me and blew by on one of the rocky downhills) which was a nice change. Once I got to the point of the course where we integrated with the sport racers I was actually passing racers which I'm not used to doing on that challenging course. 2nd lap I felt more comfortable and 3rd lap even more so. I think my laps actually got a little faster as my legs didn't protest as much and I was getting used to technical riding again. My front wheel is so light now that I accidentally overturned a couple of corners; I was used to more resistance throwing my bike around!

Ended up 2nd of 2 in my category, but I had no problem being only 6 minutes back of von Gluberschmidt - the pro racer.

Nice not to have to bring any tools or tubes on the course; I knew the bike would be fine.

I did get my weight in front of my axle at one point whilst not paying attention at low speed and hit my knee on a rock. Not much of a cut but man is it ever stiff now!

After the race, I put the lights on and took the MTB trails homeward. Beautiful ride in the rain!

Decided not to go to orienteering and take the night off. Oh yeah.

I was late for my game. The first point nearly killed me as it was by far the longest in the game and contained two quarter-field layout bids in the end-zone...correction: on the wrong side of the side line near the end zone. Fun game in the rain!

Too bad that we were up 6-5 and lost 15-8.