A new week

Monday 2-3 hours
Met up with the full Mont team and Deb. We rode a 20 minute warmup then split up from the girls and Ian.

I rode the Red loop with Jansen pushing hard up ahead. I kept close for a 90% effort on the climb followed by Jamie and Phil. We came down the switchbacks and rode the fire trails and met up with Ian and the girls at the pipeline track.
We all rode the beginner downhill track and follwed the singletrack back to the Pavillion from the western carpark.

Wednesday 2 1/2 hours.
Met up with Jamie,Mitch and Mark for a ride around the back of Stromlo to the double black diamond loop. The trails here are in need of some serious maintenance. Dead trees and some tracks towards the end of the loop are barely visible. Regardless I managed to ride the majority of the trails with exception of some super rocky sections.....next time.

We rode back to the Pavillion and rode the time trial circuit.

I only managed to time the first effort and felt like I was doing it easy after I passed the gate and kept a steady pace upto the fire trails around the back then punched it hard to the finish.

4.56sec Wow a good 35 secounds faster than 3 weeks ago.feeling good.

Last week with Time trials

I have been lazy updating but have been riding fairly solidly. With the commencement of the time trial training I have knocked back on hours trained per week and increased training intensity dramatically.

Last Tuesday Time trials, same loop on the 29er Paragon.

1st 5.16sec

A good 15-20 secounds faster, still felt slow on the slight uphill gradient on the back of this Stromlo loop but definetely felt faster on the long steady flat firetrail in the middle section and superfast on the last fire trail section ending this loop.

Friday Long steady Endurance ride. 4hrs
A ride from work to Bruce Ridge. I rode from work to Belconnen, connected to Black mountain fire trails and rode around to O'Connor and then upto Bruce Ridge.
Once at Bruce Ridge I rode a full loop and doubled back.