Training Log Archive: Bomb

Border ranges circuit, from the Lions Road. Dan, James and a few other guys were doing a 120k ride from Rathdowney - down the Lions Road, then a 40k dirt loop up into the border ranges. I drove down to the turn off from the lions road and did the dirt loop.
A bit of rain during the week meant the dirt roads were about perfect. ranged from hard packed clay to very rough gravel. some epic climbs, which were tough but doable. the descents were pretty steep and I had trouble breaking enough to stay in control. some of the coarser gravel was crazy rough to ride over on the way down and I struggled to hold onto the bike, or even see where I was going. no so much fun.
Had a bit of a rescue mission to help out some of the other guys - they were a bit less cautious on the down hills and cut up a few tyres.

Coottha run from the original cyclone HQ in Bardon. With Lance, and Wendy for the first half. Nice run, and felt really good for the first 2/3, but then L calf tightened up and got fairly painful to run. it was pretty much at the furthest point on the run, so just needed to keep going. I thought it was fine (no pain at all for the first part of the run) but obviously I'll have to be a bit more careful with it.
It seems like I've progressed to the next level of geriatric athlete, where injuries overlap instead of getting a little break between them.

token yoga and stretching.

chiro today. some improvement, but I think its going to need another adjustment to my neck.

finished work in time to run, but had a nap on the couch instead. contribution to training was to buy a new head torch strap for my ayups.

pilates. added some exercises to try and sort my neck out, but they were fairly unsuccessful. that's going to have to wait until the chiro visit on thurs.
rest was ok. calf is still tight, but not super sore, so it seems that sunday was just a rogue cramp. much better than the other options.

C • Cramp 1