Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Headed out in the late afternoon in central Auckland, once it had become apparent that the cyclone was tracking a little further east than expected and was going to largely miss the city.

First challenge was finding somewhere to go - staying in the central city the first instinct is to head for the parks (not least to minimise road crossings), but it turns out we're staying 50 metres outside the embargoed area for the WMOC sprint final (with views over perhaps half the area) so I had to steer clear of that, meaning a fairly interrupted early part with a few major road crossings.

There was a wake-up call in the first kilometre. I'd forgotten how much of a struggle uphill starts can be for me these days, now that I so rarely do them (there are no climbs within 2km of my place). Improved considerably once up on top and got better through the Domain, though still not good enough to make me want to do another lap of the block to get the time up to the originally planned 40.