Training Log Archive: fletch

Was feeling restless and grumpy. I may have reached the limit of my capabilities to deal with not training. There was no wind, and it had cooled down a little, so I headed out for a bike ride. Not really meant to be training, more just a chance to clear the brain and the legs and hopefully feel more relaxed. Seemed to work.
Down Brighton to the coast, along the footpath to Challenger, back on the footpath to Curtin ave, north up Marine parade, then North Street, and back up the highway to Brighton and up the hill to home.
Took it nice and easy, apart from a short burst on the way home where I drafted a truck. Only proved that I'm not very fit, then back to normal. Good fun, apart from the one loser who had to yell at me as his mate nearly squeezed me off the road in an effort to prove how small his penis was.

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Got sick of Attackpoint trying to tell me how to start using my log, so despite the fact that I'm going to do very little of any training consequence for the next week and a half, I went for a paddle. Felt OK. Tried with a longer foot position on the way out from Banks to Tranby House. Left glute and leg went sore, then numb as usual. Was marginally better on the way back, when I reverted to a more familiar position.
Paddling could be quite peaceful and enjoyable if I was more comfortable sitting in the boat. Should try and do something about that I s'pose.

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Contemplated the floreat ride this morning, but after the joys of backyard camping with the kids and not getting to sleep till 1:30am, E's 5:06am wakeup call didn't inspire me to go riding.

Oh well, what's another couple of weeks before starting to exercise again...

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Thanks to some sage words from Jacko, have decided to abandon the weights in the pack. Have been feeling a bit stiff and sore, particularly first thing in the morning. Hopefully the load reduction will help things start feeling good again.

Other things to remember. Rehab will stop at New Years, not at 15300 and the running will resume 1 week later....
Now that's clear, I will have to start riding as well. Maybe even paddling... anyone up for an adventure race in 2012??

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Thought about riding this morning. That's as close to exercise as I've been for a fortnight. Have actually had a proper stretch 3 days in a row now. Doesn't seem to have made much difference yet.

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Hey, my rehab has finally stopped coming up as phone numbers!

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Event: MetrO 11-12: Leeming
 

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less than 10000 to go...

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woo hoo

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Ditto

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both with 20kg

...and the 3rd. Bugger. Where have you gone routine??

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In other news, it's more than a week since I've done any training.

2nd session missed :( Only the evening set. No weights added.

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. 20kg pack both sessions.

Achilles the sorest they've been for quite a while.

Event: MetrO 11-12: Mindarie
 

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. 20kg pack both sessions.

MetrO event went pretty smoothly, though turnout wasn't great. And one newcomer didn't have a watch and returned at 7pm, but still with a smile. Thanks for all the help Dolf. If you ever want to try your hand at setting, pick an area that doesn't need to be mapped and I promise I'll actually walk you through the process next time...

Achilles felt a little sore this evening. Probably a result of a few little jogs putting out controls. If so then it's pretty disappointing as they were very slow and were no more than a few hundred metres each :(

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Same again. Shouldn't be so lazy. Keep leaving the pack in the car when I get home.

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Same as yesterday

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20kg in morning, no weight in evening

3510/15300. Same old.

With BB, Jake, Shanel, and sometimes Danger
Felt pretty comfortable at times sitting in behind BB and Jake, but that feeling disappeared whenever we started to go uphill, so never got to the front at all. Pretty much held their wheels on the climbs, but just about killed myself to do it. Very tentative on the corners. Nice of it to rain on me again for my return to the Floreat Renegade. I need to get some new brakes, maybe new tyres and lots of new confidence.

Went for the repeat of the first session, partly because I missed the last 2 and partly to start the session 1 at the start of a week. Now I just have to do more than one session before I pike again.
Push-ups: 14, 18, 14, 14, 18 (meant to be 20+ Got a tiny bit closer to the 19th than last time...)
Squats: 19, 24, 19, 19, 50
Sit-ups: 21, 27, 21, 21, 30
Dips: 15, 22, 17, 17, 18, 22

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Both sets with 20kg today. Feeling pretty good now. Seem to be getting slightly more range of motion as I progress, which will hopefully help prevent relapse.

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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Never got round to the morning set, so have broken my run of not missing rehab :(
Did the evening set with 20kg in the pack. Sore left achilles on first set, pretty good after that. Harder on the shoulders than anything else.

Event: MetrO 11-12: Swan View
 

Sooo nearly piked this morning. Felt OK getting up when the alarm went off and had brekkie, but my back felt really stiff and a bit sore and I nearly went back to bed.
Finally got out hte door then made the tough decision to go down the coast first, meaning that my only tailwind for the ride would effectively be warm-up and cooldown. Took it pretty easy down to Tydeman Rd. Nearly chased one bloke that came steaming past, then backed off and dangled about 100m in front for a while, but resisted. Got mixed up with a few others from Tydeman along PReston Pt Road, dunno who was in a group with who and who was just in the same place at the same time, but despite enjoying a little break tucked out of the wind, I was on my own once I hit the climb before Pt Walter. Steady pace through to Canning BRidge, where I seemed to be the only rider on the planet that didn't know that the path unde CAnning Hwy was closed, so after a little detour, continued on my way, rode throug a group before Mt Henry, then turned north. Had a cling-on on a flat bar for a while, but he disappeared at the Narrows and pottled home solo again from there.
Glad to get it done before it got too hot.

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No weights on either set. Morning set was more like mid-afternoon.

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Too lazy to do anything else. Morning set with 10kg again

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With the pack again am. Added 3 sets of leg raises and back extensions after the calf work to target a couple of bits that I think need work but are being slightly neglected by my superhuman mutli-challenge weights program.

Still wasn't feeling terribly inspired, but managed to overcome my standard morning lethargy and get on the bike finally.
I hope how I felt was a reflection of the fact I may have had a virus for a while rather than further fitness loss, as the middle portion of the ride felt terrible.
Got going a bit better for the last 20 minutes or so, but it all felt that little bit harder than it should have. Not really looking forward to th return journey.

A ride of 2 parts. Had to go pretty hard from school to Jacko's work to pick up the orthotics that I was meant to get but forgot about yesterday (Sorry Jacko!). Ride was fine till Ocean Reef Road, but then the bike lane/shoulder on Marmion disappears for quite a while, which made for slower and more annoying progress.

After picking up the orthotics, all desire to ride a bike had disappeared and I plodded home very slowly along some less major roads, trying to get home without having to divert out to either Marmion Ave or the Freeway. Mission accomplished. Probably should have had a drink at some point. Had a full water bottle, but the water was a week + old and had been sitting in the car for quite a while, so I gave it a miss.

Have been feeling totally crap since getting home. I;ve either fried myself or I'm just really unfit. Oh well.

In happier news, Jacko has suggested that after a couple of weeks with the orthotics I start to ease back into running again. Yay for running in the holidays.