Training Log Archive: ba-ba

Heaveygate, Bole Hill, Stables, Crosspool, Lydgate, Crookesmore, Home.
Started steady, cranked it up a bit. Felt good. tt route?

finally entered 6days, can't wait for a date with the Midge!

Grand Saturday ride with some/all/none of Marcus and Faz depending on the time. Home to Broomhill, then out via Redmires to Stanage Pole, then down the (bloody rough at times) Long Causeway. Back along the road to Stanage Popular end CP, Burbage Bridge North to Lady Canning's. Across to the Houndkirk 'Road' (where Faz left us), then along here to Hathersage Road and Stoney Ridge Road, from where found a rather nice (if a bit rutted at times - I spent a bit of time falling in between the ruts...) Bridleway on Blacka Moor. First time riding here (only the 2nd time I've been all told) and think I'll be revisiting quite a bit over the summer. Marcus knew a path that contoured around the hill to the bridleway we wanted, then down to the bottom of Blacka and to the outskirts of Totley. Across some field into Eccy Woods (where Marcus headed for home), and back home via High Storrs, Bingham and Weston Park. Bonza!
Great weather - was sunny but not as opressive (both sun and humidity-wise) as earlier in the week. Was going quite well up hills, but Marcus was much better than me on the rough stuff, and I panseyed around on rough descents. Bike handling got better as we went, but not great at maintaining speed.
A Grand Day Out
Knackered at the end. And bum hurt for the first time on a bike.

Once the rain (and Murray) had abated it was a grand day, and cool! Evening run - Heavygate, Bole Hill, Stables, Crosspool, Tapton (for an unscheduled taming of the bog-monster - it's back :S) then down Crookesmore rd and to Ponderosa. Nice Cruise.

3x1km on the loop in Ponderosa. Had about 5mins sitting down between each one. Loop is 500m with ~15m climb, so each km was 2 loops and ~30m climb. Felt OK but this was just to see what I can do, and to set a bench-mark - aim to increase the #reps, pace and decrease the rest time throughout the rest of the year(s)
Times were 3:29, 3:30, 3:33

Late afternoon - not as sweltering in Sheffield as has been but still pretty hot; a breeze out towards the peaks made proceedings bearable.
Crookes, Crosspool, Lodge Moor and out towards Redmires, then across Roper Hill etc. and back through Porter Valley, Hangingwater and Ranmoor/Broomhill. Spent a fair amount of time sat at traffic lights as set off just in time for rush-hour.

To Hillsborough park and most of the way back with Dave., Felt shafted when hit the rather easy Daniel Hill so walked back, gave me a chance to cool down.

Hillsborough Park. Warm, ran in the wrong direction from the start - slick! Then managed to miss #4, which was right next to the start. Held off the Danger attack until 14, then made a better decision to 15 and managed to keep it going until 18. Then got tired and cruised the last 6 as was knacked.