Training Log Archive: Ifor

Event: WNL Eastnor Park
 

8.379km with 281m climb in 57.52. Last wnl of the season at Eastnor park. only in the park not out onto the malvens. Had 2 maps but this was realy not nesasary I cleared the first map with 2 mins left but there was nothing close on the second map so finished. The brambles seem to be far worse than they used to be. I was geting stuck in them a lot. Ended up joint first with John Embery. Was not a good run really never got running well. The split map format was not good and with no one quick not needed.
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Westbury training. 7 Hill reps up the falkendale loop. Not going very well would of quit but I was trying out the new interval feature in IpBike.

Did not go too well. What I have implemented is based off what Garmin offer with there fit file format which is good but this sort of loop realy needs location based start and end points but they are not supported. So I had to setup with a distance based active period and an open recovery. Unfortunatly there is a bug in the open code so I had to change the recovery to a timed period which I manualy stoped at the start of the interval. Unfortunatly the distance I had measured on the first lap was a bit long so the timeings for the efforts were not too good. It would all be good on the bike with ANT but not so good gps only.
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38.729km with 175m climb in 1:19:35. Went up to try the Aztec loop sesion again. 10 out, split into quicker and slower groups quicker starting first. Did not hang on at all well, found myself always doing the bit before the climb and strugeled to get on the wheel up the climb. Had taken a couple of laps by the time the quick group came flying by as I was on the front. Mark up next promptly chaced them down and I could not keep up up the hill again. Ok after another lap taken but only two more laps before they were all sprinting.

I really need to get a new rear shifter before trying this again as it was not fun with the dodgy up shift.
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9.312km with 150m climb in 0:56:57. Bok training, the Angel. Phil found a mew way into Ashton court avoiding a good bit of road which was good. Light was not working but enough other lights to be no trouble. Hip a bit painfull by end. Not too far which suited most of us.
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8.860km with 93m climb in 0:48:09. Westbury training. Group 3 which I found a bit fast. Hip a bit painfull towards end. First real test of the new workout system in IpBike. Just a simple time repeat workout for a first real test. Looks good, ran with a 3 minute timer. Distance range was 343 with some traffic stops to get across the portway up to 619m.
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Event: NE Exmore MBO Score
 

43.193km with 1331m climb in 3.04.00. Mtbo score on Selworthy beacon and Wooton beacon and edge of Exmoor. Realy good event, bright sun once out of low level cloud. Did edge of exmoor flags first then road to far side of wootton hill and back picking up flags over the hill. Finaly main road to edge of Minehead and big climb back along selworthy beacon. Took the risk droping down to get 10 before climbing back up for great final decent. 4 mins late got all but 3 10 pointers in the flat bits between the hills. felt I was going really well climbing. Some bike trouble the axel on the bottom of the top link looks to of snaped. I kept haveing to stop and hit the end back in with a stone to stop it coming out too far. A bit cautious decending with it like this.
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Interesting mention in the reace report.
http://www.bmbo.org.uk/results/report.php?event_id...

Looking at the plot I am suprised how low my heart rate was early on, I felt I was pushing harder than that. Maybe a bit tired I hove done quite a bit this week and pushed harder than I shoiuld of yesterday.