Training Log Archive: fletch

Was planning a ride today, but spent the day shifting grass clippings and tree prunings out to the verge for bulk rubbish collection. Got major hayfever and couldn't breathe properly. Good excuse...

Generally pretty slow and easy. Paddling with my Dad who is up for the weekend. Threw in a few surges (7 or 8 x 50 double strokes) and a few stops / turnarounds waiting for Dad. Paddled as far is I can get up the Greenough river then back. dad's handmade wooden ocean kayak looks so good. Faster than my tuby cross trainer too - he went with me on the last surge and I couldn't drop him. very demoralised till I had a five minute paddle in i at the end. It was cool. Not race ski fast or anything, but felt so smooth and held a great line.

Not terribly inspired ride into work and then back. Had hoped to get a MTB ride in before work, but didn't leave work until 11pm last night and struggled to get out of bed.

Great day taking 5 netball teams to an interschool carnival - if you like standing around doing bugger all for 6 hours with no food.

Paddle on the river. Went a bit further than normal. Felt pretty crap for first half an hour. Got into a rhythm by the middle of it. Probably slacked off more than I should have in patches. Would have got more out of the session if I made an effort to keep the intensity more constant.

Cycle to (20 min - strong headwind, and from - 17 min) work. Really didn't want to get out of bed this morning. Tired.

Had trouble reading the map whilst moving at the start. Tooms caught and passed me just after number 1. Was pulling away from me as I felt the lack of a proper warm-up. Fortunately he overshot a couple of tracks and we were together until the single track near 15. Slowed over the last couple as I got tired. Navigationally fine except for taking an unmapped track near 12 which lost a couple of minutes (and 3 places as a consequence).
Probably would have been 10 minutes slower without Tooms to keep me working hard. Good to know I can keep up on the MTB and that riding was still pretty much pain free (unlike walking)

Mission accomplished. Unless I get a quick fix for my leg, the AR will hurt like hell, but shouldn't affect my performance.

7 hour drive home wasn't the ideal post weekend recovery. Oh well.