Hi one and all.... Well to all my readers over the other side of Australia .... you would just be soooo sooo jealous of the weather we have had this week. Awesome, awesome , awesome!!!!!
Monday morning it was a another 3k swim, without my fins I might add with a 10k run in the evening.
Tuesday morning was a 60k ride with 4 repeats up Reebold Hill in the Biggest Possible Gear (BPG) so that you feel like you are going to fall off!!!! Those guys flying past me must have thought I was an idiot. I'm sure I heard one of them mumble something under their breath about "silly woman" mumble mumble mumble .......... Initially I wasn't too keen about doing Reebold on my own so early in the morning. Some of the squad were meeting in Floreat at 5am so I gathered together a little plan of my own which came to fruition beautifully , if i must say so myself.. I left home just before 4.30am met the guys in Floreat . I did say guys didn't I. Ha ... I ended up being the token female and got dropped not too far into their warm up , but that was cool as I knew i would meet them on the hill repeats and that was really where I was keen on the company (there are no lights up there and its in the bush) . I then left them and headed home as by then I only had 12 k left to get home and they still had another 30 to do .
As always Tuesday evening is intervals. I was looking forward to being able to just do my own set as Brad was going to be off night shift and would be there to run the session... however ... sometimes you know "the best laid plans".. Poor Brad had got a call out to a 3 car pile up (sirens blaring in the background) and I was to take the session. Luckily there were no new people there tonight so everyone just got stuck into it straight away . With the usual warm up, main set of 400,800,1km..times 2 then a cool down, i ended up with just under 11k's and a third of the way into the set Brad turned up so all good.
Wednesday.. 2.7km swim, 30min core session and the dreaded ergo session in the evening . With Brad on night shift ( we now call him the Minister of Pain!!) , Dougy ( the apprentice ) called the session. Length tonight 1hr 24mins. Paul had borrowed a wind trainer that sounded like it was a plane going to take off !!! Andy rocked up with his water bottle in a BWS wine carrier ( we now call him the Minister of wind and sound.... use your imagination!!) and this week Ross had a windtrainer on loan which was good as the last few weeks we thought he was going to catch on fire it caused that much smoke!!
Thursday morning is the MYSTERY SESSION!!! woooooooo wooooo . 40k this morning. 5km warm up then 30 k using only the 2 hardest gears on your bike, then 5 k recovery. I'm organised and up at 4 as I am meeting Lisa and Fiona at 4.30, check the bike ... rear puncture. No drama , plenty of time.... so I thought. I could not get my rear wheel back on . Well I mean I did but what a nightmare!!!! So this session gave the quads a really good work so instead of a rest in the afternoon it was instead a 21km run!!!!
It had been a pretty busy day of running around for the business. The truck needed to go to the auto electricians. At least now the people behind me will know which way I actually intend to turn. So by the time we picked the van up and made our way thru the afternoon peak hour traffic I finally got to start my 21k run. ... well at least I got to see the sun set and the moon come up! What more could you ask for .
Friday swim in the morning then off to the physio in the afternoon. The headaches are finally subsiding but I am still getting this horrible crunching in my neck!!! It's getting better and the physio seems to think just one more visit and some exercises that I've been doing and it should see itself right.
Saturday and we were meeting on the south side of the Narrows Bridge. 100kms on the bike will a 10k run around the river. As I mentioned at the start the weather here has been nothing short of stunning. A bit fresh before the sun comes up and there was a light easterly blowing but certainly nothing like some of the winds we can and probably will get here!
Sunday was a day of rest. So for me that's a sleep in till 7. Pottered around the house doing all my little jobs , dashed up to the Dome in Mullaloo for a coffee with my friends who were finishing their run . ( they are training for the Melbourne Marathon in October). A few more jobs at home then it was off to The Rose and Crown in Guildford to sit in the beer garden for a few hours. What a great afternoon!!!! Caught up with our friends Meredith and Marc and John and Cath. Lots to talk about so the afternoon just flew by. I think it got to about 26 degrees. It was great to see what everyone had been up to and to not have to think about Ironman and training. Cath (who's a nurse) had just come back from 2 weeks in Tanzania working with a plastic surgeons medical team. They solely saw burns victims. Because the people there cook on open fires and use kerosene to start their fires there are a lot of accidents, adults and children! She saw alot of horrific injuries but she loved the challenge of helping these people and is keen to go again given the opportunity.
I suppose as humans we seem to thrive on the chance to challenge ourselves no matter in what area.
" Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain.
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life-
facing new challenges,
seizing new opportunities,
testing our resources against the unknown and, in the process, discovering our own unique potential"
John Amatt (1945)
English Mountaineer
The girls!!! Meredith, Me and Cath
Everyone
The boys! John, Marc and Will
Hope yours was a good one too.
Totals this week.. 16hrs 34 mins
Swim... 8.5k..... 3hours
Bike ... 240k..... 8hrs 27
Run ....52k....... 4hrs 37
Core... 30mins
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