Training Log Archive: 007

Rode home and a detour in wadmore pk on the mtb.

Went swimming after my first ever driving lesson.. swam 1k mostly freestyle and quite continuous. A bit extra after, kicking etc.

Missed my bus so decided to ride to my 8am lecture. Not too much traffic- i think i was riding just in front of the peak hour wave. Main roads till Marden then leafy suburbs to the city then along the river.
Riding to uni is much more fun than sitting in a stinky bus, and you can sing/hum as loud as you want and noone can hear!!
Im going to ride to uni more often (funny should say that when theres only one wk left!)

Ride home from uni, pretty quick trip considering its the uphill version of the morning ride. Got my RDI of fumes..maybe next time its peak hour ill go along the river.

Paddling around the mangroves north of port adelaide, instead of going to uni... I went in the double with Tobias while my dad went single. It was pretty windy in the main channel but nice and sheltered in the smaller ones. The tide was out so we had to do a bit of mud trudging which was actually quite fun!
We were going along quite well though our boat wasn't so good in the choppy water and we had a few unbalanced episodes...the last of which ocurred 100m before the finishing and ended with us and all our stuff floating around our upsidedown canoe...Much fun!

I meant to go out for a short run in the last halfhour of daylight but it ended up being a bit longer...
I ran through wadmore pk to Addison and everything was going to plan untuil i ran into the tail end of the Athelstone runners, who convinced me to try and catch the others who had started running up ghost gully, so I ran hard for a bit but didnt manage to catch them. Halfway up I decided to take the contour path back but some how ended up on the summit link trail..so before i knew it I was on the top of black hill and it was pitch dark.
The only way down was through the quarrys, which arent the most inviting at night...so the last 15mins was an adrenaline fuelled down hill dash in the dark.
Good training for the blackhill challenge decent.

Went up Moores rd to check out the damage from the fire which has burnt the top part of morialta. It was in controll but still plenty of smoke and some flames.
Actually, I walked there and back with Tobias but ran along the top of moores rd for a bit, it was a 3hr walk so was tiring enough even though I didnt run much..

Havent done any training since coming back from oceania...too many other distractions at the moment, but id better start up again I guess, and make the most of this great training weather!