Training Log Archive: 'Bent

Knee pretty sore after all the hills on the bike. Ibuprofen and Ice.

Great, hilly and chilly ride with Bash from Caledon East to the Shed.
Big ride for this early in the season, for those of us who weren't racing in NZ.

Rail trail was a skating rink in parts, so we headed up the escarpment into the headwind. The Omega's nice and aero, but my tired legs were no match for Bash's climbing power as we hit every possible hill. Great to be out!

Woo-hoo, finally got outside on the bike!

I had some environmental stuff to do in Alton, so I dropped the van at Hwy 24 and did a destination ride to the Shed. Some good steep hills on roads, some hard and soft road allowance and trail, some icy hike-a-bike, and a good Soy Mocha. The new bike geometry is working fine, and having 2x 26" wheels sure helps. Knee's a little better too.

Spin on the erg to balance things out.

Blah- knee still not 100% so I drove to work again on a gorgeous day.
I really need to train, especially on the bike, but I'm on the knife edge of under-train vs over-use of injured bits.

C • Kneehab nav training 2

Caron's class including the hated "Hold the legs straight up then lower one almost to the floor, raise and alternate".

Someone even puked. (see Bash's log)

Ugh, just didn't have it today. Nervous about my knee and just not into it.

Feeling totally bagged today, and my knee's sore, so I pulled the plug on the workout and only did some kneehab/ foothab.

Sheesh, it wasn't *that* hard a week of training.

Easy run on the shortest route to work as my knee's still a bit sore. %&#$!!

Legs like lead and knee's still sore. Some soft post-holing this afternoon.

Icebugs were good for the commute, except one hill that resembled the Crashed Ice course.

Knee's a bit sore from the weekend.

C • Awesome 3

So nice out we did the hilly route back. My knee was sore at first but seemed to warm up.

Spin on the erg when I got home.

C • green hero 7

Ski- O at Highlands. Tarno designed an interesting course. More of a skate day, but with my knee I can only do Classic.

I started early so I could blaze my own trail, and it went pretty well at first. I cut between a lot of trails as the Classic skis were better for this, and tried to keep a good eye on the map all the time. Despite my map board and reading inserts in my sunglasses I still managed to botch it up on a quick downhill bit from 7-8, taking a wrong turn at the glacier and ending up doing a big climb, a significant detour and some slow and nasty bushwhacking to get back on course 13 minutes later. Still had fun, even if I really can't nav cleanly this year.

Kudos to G-stix for the win- he's got some speed on skis to go with his nav skills!