A ladder in my legs!
Ok, it was around 4 days ago that I went with Dee to Jacob’s ladder. As I’ve recounted to you, she went up and down with her backpack no less than 20 times in just under 2hrs. I think I did around 25 ascents but I had no backpack on. I am just waddling around like a granny right now with very sore calf muscles and the insides of my thighs very sore.
Yesterday’s BFSR ride was a pretty tame affair with 10 of us along for the trundle. I missed a set of traffic lights and missed the Riverside Drive sprint as a result. I did a fair bit of work but I missed the jump at the end of Shelley as well. Richard Kelly and Steve (?) went hell for leather at this Shelley sprint. Luke Hardy rode off for a training ride elsewhere.
Today, I did a 2.5hr ride. I dropped Dee off for another session of Jacob’s ladder and a long walk around Kings Park with her trusty backpack. I cycled about as far south as I could along Kwinana then turned around to come back again. I averaged around 33kph on the way down (slight headwind) and around 38 to 39kph coming back. Well satisfied with this and my TT position feels strong.
I lent my trusty Colnago to one of Matt’s mates for the City of Rockingham triathlon. Trent King is his name and he finished a credible 7th out of over 100 in the WAFL category. He finished as 3rd fastest cyclist in this category so the old Columbus tubing, the Profile windjammers and the gears on the downtube didn’t let him down in the end.
Congrats to a whole bundle of Front Runners including Macca who won, Brynt McSwain , the Duffield Girls and a host of others. Good to see names like Twine and Illingworth bobbing up in the juniors. Its a great sport.
Only 25 days till Dee’s Kilimanjaro trek now. Christmas nearly here. My big goals for 2009 are the sub 5hr Busso Half Ironman and a 1hr 30m Darlington Half Marathon. Both lofty goals but you may as well make them memorable if you’re going to set them.
I now have the front Gravity Zero wheel on so I’m just searching for a tyre to put on the back wheel. No rush for this. My sincere thanks to Bikeforce Southern River for preparing my little Christmas gift to my nephews (the Haro F3 bike). It’s come up a treat.
Dee has now broken in her DS trainers and my thanks also to Runner’s World for all their help recently with these and with the wheels. Finally, my thanks to Siena’s restaurant in Leederville. Once they found out our whole family were bluebaggers we got our 25% discount and the option of using our voucher for another visit. Top place for a feed.
Come on the Gunners against Liverpool tonight. Hopefully they will play as well as the Perth Glory did against Sydney today (4-1 winners)
Dee and I went to Ikea today - need a flamin’ GPS it’s so big!
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CHRISTO