Sunday, April 16, 2006
Bike Girl!
mmmm...well again i am the less than on top of it blogger!
:)
I have been having a bit of a busy week training wise...well not frantic, and there is room
for so much more, but i have been stepping it up a little.
On Wednesday I decided that it was the day to start doing the long ride, and make an effort
to build up to doing more than 2 or 3 hours...so i decided that i would start this by ridin
to maitland and back which is about 30k each way...this plan went fine until i got onto the
highway and found that i was riding into a massive headwind which was not only making it
very difficult but also pushing me into the traffic on a highway and i was struggling to
balance. So at the hexham bridge i decided to head out to Raymond Terrace way instead and
rode to heatherbrae and back. I know that the wind makes a difference and you hear me
whinging about it all the time, but the way out there took me an hour to do 24k and the way
back it took me 40minutes. Thats a chunk of a difference and the diff between riding 24k an
hour and close to 30....Anyway, the body was feeling it a little bit afterwards, cause i
havent been on a bike for a long period of time for a while...next week, i am aiming for the
60k mark...at the moment i just want to get used to doing some regular long rides at a
reasonable pace, so when it comes to those 40k rides in races next year, they wont seem like
a big deal at all...if nothing more than psychological and i can say to myself "stop being a
wooz, you ride double this in training :)"
Thursday was a write off and went out and had some Japanese food with my best mates for one
of their birthdays...you would have read about sarah and i's cycling adventures earlier on,
but i bought her a bike light and a cycle computer :) Oh no, i am turning into a cycling
nerd! But i am ok, cause i still dont have one....
I also got to have the debate with the kid at REBEL about why road cyclists are more
hardcore than mountain bikers...he used the line "dont start me on triathletes" and my
friend looked at me with the "dont you dare face" :)
Friday, i got to spend 5 hours stuck in traffic to get to my mums place at laurieton for the
easter weekend, and as you can imagine was much less than impressed! not as much as poor
cooper who needed to do a wee when we were stuck at karuah for close to 2 hours.
Got home on friday night and took the dog for a quick run around the block and did 2.5k in
under 16mins which from those who have been following this for a while, is a bit faster than
i have done it previously :)
Saturday i didnt do anything of note, and just spent the day hanging out with my mum which i
dont get to do very often...
This mornign i woke up nice and early (well 8) and took the dog running for half an hour.
Would imagine that i was running a bit slower today as she got lost a couple of times,
probabl did about 3.5k in that time i would imagine. Then i jumped oon my bike and rode out
to lakewood from laurieton (5K) and bakc, i was on a time limit you see.....did a bit over
10k in about 30mins with the help of a nice wind on the way back.....grrr. anyways.
tommorrow i think i feel a long run coming on, or maybe a long ride...not sure yet!
:)
I have been having a bit of a busy week training wise...well not frantic, and there is room
for so much more, but i have been stepping it up a little.
On Wednesday I decided that it was the day to start doing the long ride, and make an effort
to build up to doing more than 2 or 3 hours...so i decided that i would start this by ridin
to maitland and back which is about 30k each way...this plan went fine until i got onto the
highway and found that i was riding into a massive headwind which was not only making it
very difficult but also pushing me into the traffic on a highway and i was struggling to
balance. So at the hexham bridge i decided to head out to Raymond Terrace way instead and
rode to heatherbrae and back. I know that the wind makes a difference and you hear me
whinging about it all the time, but the way out there took me an hour to do 24k and the way
back it took me 40minutes. Thats a chunk of a difference and the diff between riding 24k an
hour and close to 30....Anyway, the body was feeling it a little bit afterwards, cause i
havent been on a bike for a long period of time for a while...next week, i am aiming for the
60k mark...at the moment i just want to get used to doing some regular long rides at a
reasonable pace, so when it comes to those 40k rides in races next year, they wont seem like
a big deal at all...if nothing more than psychological and i can say to myself "stop being a
wooz, you ride double this in training :)"
Thursday was a write off and went out and had some Japanese food with my best mates for one
of their birthdays...you would have read about sarah and i's cycling adventures earlier on,
but i bought her a bike light and a cycle computer :) Oh no, i am turning into a cycling
nerd! But i am ok, cause i still dont have one....
I also got to have the debate with the kid at REBEL about why road cyclists are more
hardcore than mountain bikers...he used the line "dont start me on triathletes" and my
friend looked at me with the "dont you dare face" :)
Friday, i got to spend 5 hours stuck in traffic to get to my mums place at laurieton for the
easter weekend, and as you can imagine was much less than impressed! not as much as poor
cooper who needed to do a wee when we were stuck at karuah for close to 2 hours.
Got home on friday night and took the dog for a quick run around the block and did 2.5k in
under 16mins which from those who have been following this for a while, is a bit faster than
i have done it previously :)
Saturday i didnt do anything of note, and just spent the day hanging out with my mum which i
dont get to do very often...
This mornign i woke up nice and early (well 8) and took the dog running for half an hour.
Would imagine that i was running a bit slower today as she got lost a couple of times,
probabl did about 3.5k in that time i would imagine. Then i jumped oon my bike and rode out
to lakewood from laurieton (5K) and bakc, i was on a time limit you see.....did a bit over
10k in about 30mins with the help of a nice wind on the way back.....grrr. anyways.
tommorrow i think i feel a long run coming on, or maybe a long ride...not sure yet!
