Casual paced 50 mile ride on a dedicated bike path in the NH-AL state forest. Temp peaked at 90F. Trail side blackberry's filled in where GU left off.
Casual paced 50 mile ride on a dedicated bike path in the NH-AL state forest. Temp peaked at 90F. Trail side blackberry's filled in where GU left off.
10 PM; Temp still@78F. Local record of 88F was tied today.
25 mins. to cover 3 miles. Pain free tonight, hopefully that will hold true in the morning.
02; All the best on Sat. @ that "race".
mopak; you can have your weather back any time now.
We'd be wrapped to have such a cool evening come jan/feb Bushman. We might have a few 110s spare that we can lend you. haha.
Dropped the kyak into the lake for an energetic hour of paddling. Very exciting to have so much water to play in.
The lake is touching 20% today. The track I drove down on monday has been swallowed
The day finished with an evening barefoot gallop (25min) on the golf course among my marsupial pals.
For some reason last night I felt peculiarly dedicated to training and put in a testing hour on the windtrainer, starting at 11.30pm. Should I count that as 1/2 hr of windtrainer for yesterday and a 1/2 hour for today? Oh the dilemmas we face.
I also had a hilly barefooter on the far steeper Axedale golf course yesterday. No kangaroos there for company. I was reminded however that it is magpie swooping season.
My wednesday run was a cold and damp 20ish km muddy, rocky trail slog through a cloud covered McIvor Range, about 1h56m.
thanks for the good wishes, Bushy.....all went well....first race in over 1 year......recovery from winter/spring calf issues seems complete....(fingers crossed).....ran casually for the first half then bumped it up a notch when I realized I would be okay.....averaged about 1'/mile faster than my training runs.....not great, but my confidence level is rising......actually thinking about another race is late September....we'll see.....rest day today, then back at it tomorrow.....life is good....
almost hit by a melon but it missed me
A welcome break from the heat has arrived. temps in the 70's for highs and comfortable humidity levels.
Limiting myself to biking. 52 miles Sunday /monday. Wicked cross winds kept it interesting.
Tuesday. MTB, 7 miles. Mostly road with a short bur beautiful stretch of singletrack at the end. I'm missing the running . the tradeoff is being able to walk limp free again.
Road bike ride. Point to point, from central WI to Green Bay.
Most of it on the crushed limesone of the Mountain Bay trail. 118 miles total.
Hey guys, great to read you again, melon-victims included LOL.
Had quite a long bout of no net time as we suddenly made it for an amazing family holiday in Brittany. Logged in a lot of travel miles on trains, car, on foot, it was intense and i will supply some highlights as dyrting resumes. I was very much overcome with the beauty and rawness of this side of the Atlantic which i had never seen. I couldnt help thining of mopa when i ran on the beach at Pointe de la Torche inhabites by colonies of seagulls and "wind" driven families alie. As a city slicker i had never seen the way young seagulls learn how to fly on the water's edge. That or entire family units with their surfing gear heading for the breakers. Man naturally adapting never ceases to give me a deep sense of wonder.
Actually didnt run much and anyway hardly kept track. It was just us and the Bretons to get to know. It will all be memorable. As will be the walking sightseeing marathons in Paris tagged at the start and end of trip. Lucily at some relatives pad to make the whole expedition financially tolerable.
It's great to be back. This thread feels a bit like a neighborhood diner.
Yesterday in Rome: 1hr swimming 100 laps (25 meter pool) some fastish 50s at the end.
-192 days to The MOARG The Mother Of All Running Gatherings in Gimmelwald, Switzerland, in 2011.
BTW, i found that from Aug. 3 to 6 i typoed out some days. -192 should be now correct. It will get us to 2011, that's for sure
welcome back, tpcb......back to the plan post-race.....60' Monday, 40' Tuesday, off Wed., 60' Thurs., 43' today.....and a dip at the beach.....the upcoming schedule gets a bit complicated, so who knows when the next run will be.....I should have time for a few more good ones before things get really complicated.....life is good...
From prevous post: "thining of mopa" was supposed to be "thinking of mopak"...and btw i forgot to mention that about mopak... in Paris, outside the Museum of Natural History which much to my kids dismay was closed on our last day there (tuesday) there are Roos! So at least we got to see them. A whole bunch. After reading mopak-posts for so long, i almost considered to jump the fence and go for a quick run with them, lol
Anyway, today:
got back to Milan, maybe slow run with a colleague later
yesterday:
Cortona, half an hour around the artificial lake in Borghetto of Lake Trasimeno where the kids were fishing, exercises
saturday:
50 mins diagonals on grass at Santi Tiezzi Stadium, plus exercises, then went family canoeing and swimming on lake Trasimeno. Water is no-visibilty, vegan green, but a cool swim is a cool swim.
Saturday. A nice little paddle, exploring one of my mountain bike courses of old, now covered by the lake. An amazing amount of water is flowing into it now. It had advanced south and east by more than a km since monday.
Off to Bendigo for a 3k trail race. Solid effort, 12.00.
A bit disappointed to get caught and passed by Wolf late in the race. We all started off scratch for this one. I have been running 2mins quicker than him over 8k but he is quick and the 3k suits him.
Sunday. A 5k trail handicap. Tougher course than yesterday with some tough little (rough) hills in the middle. My handicap is a bit harsher (another 70 secs) after a win a couple of weeks ago.
A 3.50 first km was pleasing. Reached 1/2 way with the faster guys having caught me. I managed to get past a couple of them on some steep and rough descent but soon got burnt off on the smoother stuff. The last km is a steady climb and I had someone 10 metres in front all the way. He could hear me and was digging deep. Iprobably closed it to about 5 metres by the end but couldn't catch him. A time of 20.17, pretty pleased with that.
Stopped at the lake on the way home and paddled into newly flooded areas, weaving around 5-8 year old gum trees that had sprung up on the dry lake bed. Plenty of bird life in these sheltered shallows. A variety of cormorants, an egret some spoonbills, woodducks, black ducks, black swans, ibis and some hovering hawks. Some lazy kangaroos basking in weak sunlight didn't bother to move as I glided past them.
Hard work in the open water into a stiff breeze and some choppy water. Pleasing to see perhaps 50 cars parked along the shore. The lake was a major tourism attraction -fishing, skiing, speedboats etc, lots of holiday parks along it's shoreline.
Sam who runs the "Trading Post" kiosk says he's sold more food, drinks and fishing gear the last 2 weekends than he had all year.
Monday. An easy 25min run around the Bendigo racetrack, barefoot 2 laps on the grass around the outside rail.
A quick 30 min mtn bike ride up to Viewing Rock and back.
am, 75 mins on hilly trails, tripped over a tree root @halfway but lived without drawing blood
pm, 40 mins easy ?I think I got hit on by a gay guy at a crosswalk?
Bumped into a friend (not the ?gay? guy) today and he said I looked fit, must be the flaxseed, either that or I look like death and he was just being polite, either way it's hard to tell when your 5'8" and between 115 and 117 pounds.
only 2 sessions today, usually it's 3
still looking for a coach ... sigh ...
Have been in Chamonix for the lqst 5 days.
Got a 50mins and a 1h43mins run up towords Darde waterfalls qnd and Le Cerro glacier panoramic point.
Spent way too much time on my feet along the UTMB course cheering with some dedicated supporters from Juras region.
Need to rest just a little bit.
30' today.....the shortest run in months, but perhaps the most meaningful....this one put me over the top for my summer training goal.....with 2 days to spare......a good feeling.....and just in the nick of time as the work load will increase this week putting a big time damper on my running.....maybe Friday next?.....
Rode 80 miles over the last 5 days. Weather has mellowed out.
No runs now, maybe no more running ever.
mopak, the only roos we see in these parts roll along to the name of Quintana. Always good to hear of your docile friends in the out back.
tpcb, after extensive web browsing regarding bikes, I am going to visit a Pinarello dealer tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
Lance was in Madison today. Bike rally brought out around 30,000 riders.
The Bride and I rode 18 casual miles around home. This was a pleasant reprieve from the fast paced 39 mile jaunt of yesterday.
Saturday. A morning of spreading gravel.
Then off to Bendigo and a 30min brisk mtn bike and straight into 4km warmup then a 4km trail race in 16.17, splits 4.07, 4.12, 3.59, 3.59.then 2km jog and a 2k trail race in 8.05, splits 2.07, 2.05, 2.00 and a quickish 1.53.Then a km jog. Stopped at the lake and paddled through shallow water full of 5-6 year old eucalypts.
Sunday. 3km warmup, 6.5km trail race. This one is our grand final, only the 20 top scorers over the season get to run. It is a scratch race but contains a sealed handicap. The handicapper re-handicaps everyone on the basis of their best performances in the dozen qualifying races. No one is sure of their exact hcp. Double points for this one in the season aggregate award ($1500 of travel voucher)based on the hcp results. This is a race where you dip for the line even when there is no one near you. Some years it can come down to tenths of seconds in the handicap result.
For me I knew Kev S. was my benchmark. We have been close on times all season. Kev and Paul B (ex 2.26 man) pulled away in the first km, run on hard dirt road. Rick (ex 14.50 in his day) Brendan (a 2.50 man) and teenager Jacob were tearing up the dirt. Hutchy, once my arch rival but now to quick for me, wisely ran his own race between Kev and the leaders.
Once we got on the softer more undulating trails I was able to work back to Paul but Kev was low flying and away.
Up ahead Rick was having his best run of the year and had blown away Big Bren and little Jacob.
Hutchy was steadily eating away at their margin.
At 4k I pushed hard to pass and drop Paul but was about 100m behinfd Kev. I probably closed that to 60-70m before we hit road again with just over a km to go. From there on I was spent and Kev pulled further away to beat me 25.48 to 26.05. Paul survived a late charge from the fast finishing Wolf 26.28 to 26.30. Rick won comfortably in 23.23 nearly a minute ahead of Big Bren with Jacob desperately kicking into 3d by 2 seconds from the savvy Canadian, Hutchy.
Bodies everywhere as everyone throws their last drop of juice at the line.
We don't find out the handicap result until saturday's presentation. We even get to bet on the outcome during the night.
Jogged a couple of kms then off to the U/10 presentations and a quick paddle on the way home.
Today. Took out the bike at the bottom of Mt Ida and rode up to the top in 20mins just beating sunset. Back down in just 7mins giving 60km/hr a fright a couple of times. Stopped at the golf course and galloped about for 25mins barefoot and fancy free. One lone golfer practising his driving skills and numerous marsupials practising their grazing skills. None of them seemed to interested in me.
darn, missed the action in Rieti but i was driving a truck back to Milan!
today: rest
Bushman, looking forward to reading about your cycling evolution.
yesterday
barefoot swimming, 1hr
Still recovering from last week, holdidays, summer...bidirectional propelled floating counting monochromatic tiles is more fun than one would imagine
Foot felt good enough to venture forth for 4 miles at 10 min/ mi. pace. May have to retreat from the minimalist fringe to wearing some clod hoppers and staying free of foibles.
tpcb, the town is Treviso; the bike a Pinarello, Campy componentry, 2 week delivery timetable. My inner child is doing a gleeful dance.
Foot felt good enough to venture forth for 4 miles at 10 min/ mi. pace. May have to retreat from the minimalist fringe to wearing some clod hoppers and staying free of foibles.
tpcb, the town is Treviso; the bike a Pinarello, Campy componentry, 2 week delivery timetable. My inner child is doing a gleeful dance.