Training Log Archive: 'Bent

An easier sprint, went OK but one small (I thought) error put me in the bottom 1/3.

Middle Distance at Navstock.
Just couldn't get my nav in gear here, and had an abyssmal race. 3 huge errors, but the rest went OK. Finished way down the list.

Navstock Night-O. Did this with 3Pin to practice for our Rogaine. We also did as much as we could bushwhacking and avoiding trails for practice. Went down like a ton of bricks when I tried to shin-split a log, but had a fun time.
3Pin and I do pretty well together.

OK, the Albion Hills biking video is up on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGo5eeb0OBI

I can burn the higher res version on a CD if anyone wants it.

C • Set-up? 8

Ride to work with Bulletdog, then back to the O-training session in Palgrave, then to Albion Hills afterwards.

Bash set up a good O-course in Palgrave. The idea was O-golf, where par is 3 glances at your map. The first 8 controls were easier for the families that came.
Since I know the trails so well, I was able to do most of them in 1 or 2 glances, but did have to work at memorizing exactly where. I ran into 'Goose, and saw him head off into the wild blue yonder.
We had about 15 people turn out.

Ran it at an easy pace due to the smog day.

Met up with Crash, Guitarman, 'Goose, Bash and Alan at Albion for a practice night ride. I'm not sure if it was the smog, a tough day at work, yesterday's 3 rides or just my bedtime, but my legs were pooched and I seemed to forget how to ride. Parts felt like a 5 trying to catch the fabulous Crash and the flying Goose.
I managed to lose my great Crank Bros. multitool somewhere out there, and just didn't care enough to go back and find it. AP-ers, think of it as a prize out there.

Biking to Albion with Bash, around the trails with the gang, back with Crash where we threw in some quick zone 5 intervals, then off to work. Got some more video footage too!

Ride home- quicker with no dogs (They can't take the heat).

Commute with the Bulletdog.

Paddling Island Lake with Bash.
We did a series of intervals too. Interestingly, according to Bash's GPS, 7.5-8kph we can hold for hours, but an interval at 90% is just over 9kph, in our fastest canoe.

C • Hull speed 9

Managed to squeeze in a small workout on Bill's gym and some Link exercises while visiting Bash's family.

Headed down to Albion for an evening spin of some of my favourite sections. The legs weren't great after yesterday's hammerfest but the ride went well technically. Missed the gang, but the biking was so-o-o good.
They've added even more bumps and things to the small technical section on the last bit of singletrack.