Training Log Archive: AndreMIn the 7 days ending Sep 3, 2011:
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Saturday Sep 3, 2011 #
6 AM
Road bike (Welshpool Rd Hills Ride) 3:30:00 [3] 80.0 km (22.9 kph)
Just Janet and I this morning. Took it fairly easy.
4 PM
Paddling 50:00 [3] 7.5 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: Epic V10
Paddle to statue and back. Followed a pod of 5 dolphins from Matilda Bay and around to the shallows of Pelican Point where they started chasing after fish - quite spectacular. Like watching a nature doco from the ski.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2011 #
Road bike (Commute) 30:00 [3] 11.0 km (22.0 kph)
shoes: Amiata Torino
Tuesday Aug 30, 2011 #
6 PM
Running 1:00:00 [3] 8.0 km (7:30 / km)
shoes: Brooks Inf. 3rd pair
Tues aft running group by Steve - City Beach - I did 4 x 1k, 3 x 250. Did not bring a watch and jogged most of it. I was spent, but the legs felt fine - not like after a rogaine.
Sunday Aug 28, 2011 #
7 AM
Mountain Biking (Albany XPD Training WE) 4:00:00 [3] 52.0 km (13.0 kph)
shoes: SC Blur XC
We got up at 6 and left at 7. Enjoyed a good laugh when Tim went to look for his bike and says he thinks it's stolen. Todd managed to move it early to the road.
We ride south to the Porongurups, getting some water from a friendly person at a Tea house along the way, and then decide we have enough time and energy to ride up through the pass across the Porongurups. A bit of steep climbing and soon we going down an even steeper track with lots of tree fall everywhere. All made it down ok. Then nice riding in the early morning across picturesque farm land with lots of black cattle, the steers enjoying a run with us.
We're now following the same route as the bike leg in the Great Southern Adv Race of 2008, and I can finally do the leg properly since in the race we wrongly cut back to the Chester Pass rd and did about 10k on it which was actually out of bounds. So we head south and then the track stops and we're in a bushy section between two farms. Jumping lots of fences, and then a boggy swamp, then back up to connect with the track again and two more fences.
Arrived to see Ant, John, Ben, Pip at the Kalgan TA at around 1045am.
We ride south to the Porongurups, getting some water from a friendly person at a Tea house along the way, and then decide we have enough time and energy to ride up through the pass across the Porongurups. A bit of steep climbing and soon we going down an even steeper track with lots of tree fall everywhere. All made it down ok. Then nice riding in the early morning across picturesque farm land with lots of black cattle, the steers enjoying a run with us.
We're now following the same route as the bike leg in the Great Southern Adv Race of 2008, and I can finally do the leg properly since in the race we wrongly cut back to the Chester Pass rd and did about 10k on it which was actually out of bounds. So we head south and then the track stops and we're in a bushy section between two farms. Jumping lots of fences, and then a boggy swamp, then back up to connect with the track again and two more fences.
Arrived to see Ant, John, Ben, Pip at the Kalgan TA at around 1045am.
12 PM
Paddling (Albany XPD Training WE) 3:30:00 [3] 19.0 km (11:03 / km)
A good transition of about an hour. Did not feel like eating anything as I had been eating enough on the bike.
Ant and John had laid out the sevvies ready for us, and at that stage we realised Robin and I only brought 5 seats and footrests and not 8! Our stop in Balingup to pickup the Sevvies from Murrray's parent's farm had us more concerned about leaking boats and we pumped up about 6 to find 4 good ones and went through lots of valves. We had 4 in our mind and not double that.
But in true xpd fashion, we made do. John already wasn't paddling with his sore knee from the walk, so we put 7 on 3 sevvies and 1 on the endorfin ski. Tim, Ant, Janet on one with one seat, Mark and I on another, Nancy and Todd on another, Robin our navigator on the ski.
The paddle went well - a 10kt SSW headwind was no problem. We paddled down the Kalgan, stopping a few times to pump up pontoons. Then across Oyster Harbour, and then out on the ocean down Middleton beach to our accommodation and pickup car. Amazingly, with a bunch of weekends spent in the rain this one in Albany hardly had more than a few dustings.
Ant and John had laid out the sevvies ready for us, and at that stage we realised Robin and I only brought 5 seats and footrests and not 8! Our stop in Balingup to pickup the Sevvies from Murrray's parent's farm had us more concerned about leaking boats and we pumped up about 6 to find 4 good ones and went through lots of valves. We had 4 in our mind and not double that.
But in true xpd fashion, we made do. John already wasn't paddling with his sore knee from the walk, so we put 7 on 3 sevvies and 1 on the endorfin ski. Tim, Ant, Janet on one with one seat, Mark and I on another, Nancy and Todd on another, Robin our navigator on the ski.
The paddle went well - a 10kt SSW headwind was no problem. We paddled down the Kalgan, stopping a few times to pump up pontoons. Then across Oyster Harbour, and then out on the ocean down Middleton beach to our accommodation and pickup car. Amazingly, with a bunch of weekends spent in the rain this one in Albany hardly had more than a few dustings.