Had a reasonably productive work day today, despite the fact I feel like someone has done an autopsy on me (©Andy).
Did 10 man-pushups and some situps, which earns me the right to eat frozen pizza for tea methinks!!
Work. Work. Work. Sleep. Eat. Work. Eat. Work. Work. Work. Work. Sleep. Work. Eat. Work. Work. Work. Work.
Pretty much in that order too.
No profile madness, no time to ride 
Looking forward to a Cogsgirls session tomorrow 
This counts as an update, right?
After numerous requests (1 is a number!) it’s Friday profile madness again. It’s been a pretty full on couple of weeks since I last posted properly, we’ve found a junior who is going really well and given up house hunting because it’s so much work.
Last week was a big week, everything-wise. Here the profiles, oldest to newest this time 
Get a beer, this is Bowing to peer pressure: War and peace edition. You asked for it, SecretCoach!!
Note the time (6am on a Saturday! That’s committment!). Jogging around the Botanical Gardens with Chris for the first time. We dragged mum out with us, and she power walked the course not a whole lot slower than we jogged it LOL. We were able to use this as amunition to get her to do the event with us, yay! At this point my heart rate is starting to settle down a bit, and isn’t shooting up to 200 every time I walk 3 paces…
At this point my motivation for getting off my butt to train for the Mother’s Day Classic is about zero (sorry Chris!). In order to combat this, Phil brings out the hyrid and rides aorund the park in front of me. So nice of him to lower himself to do 8km an hour or less… Nothing special here except I wanted to vomit by the time I finished. I guess that means I went hard enough. Miss riding. We were listening to a cycling radio show on RRR, and one of the guests said when he was out with a bunch one night he saw a girl jogging and her ‘boyfriend’ riding a bike beside her. Apparently someone yelled out “Buy her a bike you cheap bastard”. I don’t remember anyone yelling at us, but we do see bunches ride past us when we’re out - wonder if it was us?! Does that make us famous somehow?
Spinervals (think Aerobics Oz Style, but with stationary road bikes - looks as dumb as it sounds) on the trainer, hard work not just because it’s arse busting but because of the craptastic music they play on the DVD. Thanks for the backup cousing Andy
Phil and I made the long haul journey to Caroline Springs to go riding with Shayne. Shayne’s also had a transplant, and is considering maybe doing the Around the Bay in a day with us this year, since Phil’s effort last year was so inspirational Shayne’s just starting out so it was just a quiet pootle. It was fun to see how low I could get my heart rate - you can see it shoot up to 130 bpm when I scared the crap out of myself and nearly didn’t unclip in time!! Wonder how many calories that burned? Did some sprints on the way back to have a go
Conveniently, Ben said he didn’t have any lights so couldn’t go for a ride. Stupid me volunteers to ride over with my spare ones, thinking we’ll head out for a quiet ride after and everyone will be happy. See previous post on this ridiculousness… Short ride my (busted) ass.
Maybe Ben and Pete are ganging up on me? Pete later admitted that he was running fast on purpose to see how far he could push me. Answer? Not that far LOL, as previously discussed.
All this ass busting (especially running) has me missing riding. That and, pizza for lunch two days in a row means I could really do with burning 2000 odd calories - riding to Willy for jogging will do it!!
This needs to be documented as the first time I’ve ever been jogging and had fun doing it. I’m having a great time training with Chris, chatting, not too much ass busting. It’s all good! And I get to ride when I’m done, what more could I ask for?! Purposefully riding easy to save myself for the Mother’s Day Classic.
Warren Cay from BikeNow runs Cogsgirls skills sessions for girls for free on Saturday mornings. I’ve only done one session previously (training for Buller), and it was just fantastic. Since I spend all my time riding on my own, or trying to keep up with Ben or Andy, I’ve got no idea how to ride in a bunch at all. This session we rode from Hampton to Black Rock, did some drills, rode on to Mordy then back to Hampton.
Warren showed me a few “safe” ways to contact riders in the bunch. I have to say that riding down Beach Rd rubbing shoulders, LITERALLY, was quite strange. Thank you Warren for being so patient with me!
Since this is the day before the Mother’s Day Classic, I’m thinking I should take it easy - funny how quickly I forget that once I get out there LOL. I practised some pairs rolling turns with a guy called Peter who was there helping out, which was heaps of fun. I broke my heart rate again (195 oops!), but it was awesome fun. We rode back to Hampton as a bunch, which I found really difficult. I feel uncomfortable riding beside people, and when I was at the front felt nervous and anxious about riding too slow/fast/wobbly/etc.
The whole bunch kind of disintegrated going up a hill, and Warren sent me off (don’t really remember?) to keep up with Peter - more awesome fun. I forgot to turn my polar back on again when we left Mordy, so I’ll never know how fast I was going (ohhhhhh how convenient!! no evidence! *evil laugh*).
Had a great time, can’t wait to do more! Profile is a bit messy because we were doing drills.
(As an aside, I cut the post ride coffee to hustle home and get ready for an auction we were hoping to bid at. The opening bid was $30k above the estimated price, and it ended up selling for $150k more than it was advertised at - thus the suddent disinterest in househunting).
We rode into the city to do the Mother’s Day run (even mum!! I wished her Happy Mother’s Day halfway up Nepean Hill heheheh). We were running a bit late, and in all the fuss I forgot to turn my foot pod on or even hit the lap button when we started running. Because we were running late I didn’t meet up with Chris until right before the run (soooo sorry Chris!!), and you can see my heart rate going all over the place because I was stressing out. The body is very fascinating!
Once we hooked up, we had a fantastic run. I had such a great time, and I think Chris and mum did too. Mum ended up running quite a lot of the course, and based on the time from the website Chris and I averaged about 8.89km an hour, which is a record for us (probably because Chris decided to sprint the last bit, thanks!!). It was a really great event, with cool freebies and so many people. A great way to connect with family and friends
Special mention to smarty pants Pete, who did the 8km run and completed his 4 faster than we did 
Show off!
I had the polar running during the ride as well, so where the cursor is, is approx the start of the run.
To balance out all the frantic activity we had a lovely breakfast at Babble on Babylon, and then had afternoon tea at Nanny’s. Such a nice day
Looking forward to the next event with Chris, maybe Run to the g?
I got a cold the very next day, which sucks.
So that’s about all the profile madness I have!!! It certainly is a disincentive to exercise that it takes so long to waffle about this stuff here… Maybe that’s why I’ve done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING all week?
So I’m off now - think of me with my champers (Lance says yes!!) watching the Search for the newest Pussy Cat Hussy, because that’s about all I’ve got the energy for.
I went for a jog last night, and averaged a good 2km an hour faster than I normally do. That’s Pete’s fault, I think he was trying to kill me for asking him to come in early yesterday LOL. He said he sped up a couple of times to see if I would notice. To add insult to injury, after trying to kill me up and down the beachfront he went home and ran another 7km. It’s just not cricket!
I had another junior candidate come in for a trial today. Things seem to have gone well and *gasp* I’m about to become an employer! It’s pretty scary, but also exciting so we’re heading out to celebrate tonight.
We’ve also found a FANTASTIC CSS guru in Perth, who writes the nicest code. So bring on the web projects baby!!!! I think Phil wants to marry him because he doesn’t have to stay up until midnight trying to figure out some Microsoft hack or other.
Heading out for champers pats! Lance says yes
*pppbbblllllttttttttt*
I’m recruiting at the moment, and I have to say that the general behaviour of people has really taken me aback. I won’t go into it here, but sheesh, seriously it’s shocking the way that some people conduct themselves.
At least I managed to get an arsebreaking ride in yesterday! Did a quick 50km trip with Benny down beach road (profiles later!).
Weird things have been happening lately. My heart rate is pretty out of control right now, and I’m spending lots of time (hours!) above 80% of my maximum heart rate. This has lead Phil to advise me that I shouldn’t be seeing my HR max as a target or to do list 
I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading about it but still can’t really see why it should be jumping up so much. I’ve just got unfit I guess!! It’s been a long time since I’ve done a resting heart rate test (after a strong cup of coffee would be a bad time, right?) so it will be interesting to see if that has jumped up again too!
I didn’t exactly have an optimum lead in to the ride last night - I’ve been a bit dehydrated, and forgot that I had an early lunch. Figuring we’d be doing a quick 20km I didn’t bother to take gatorade (just water), so did that whole ride with pretty much no calories in the tank to begin with and none inserted during the ride. For future reference, Lance says “Calories go in!!!!”.
I still feel like a truck has hit me from benchpressing and other madness on Saturday, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that an hour after I got home last night I nearly lost my lunch (what was left of it) and carried on a phone conversation with my mother that I have pretty much no recollection of. A glass of lemonade fixed me right up, so once again Lance says “Calories go in!!!!”
So today I give myself the What a peanut tag, I guess I really should have known better!
I’m sitting on the couch like Homer, with ice cream and Ice Magic debris spread about the place, updating my blog. It’s after midnight, and Phil’s still working. On a project for me. How sweet is he? How undeserving am I? *virtual mwah*
Haven’t posted in a month. Been too busy to think about it really, it’s not like there’s been a shortage of things to report.
Work is busy in the extreme, and I’m in the middle of recruiting - this is an exciting and scary process.
We are house hunting, a depressing and arduous task given the real estate market in Melbourne right now. Houses listed between $450,000 and $500,000 are regularly selling for at least $200,000 more than expected price ranges. One listed at $525 ended up going for $802!!
I know we’ll get there in the end, yet another lesson in patience from the universe. Thanks for that!
I have been badly neglecting Chris’ jogging cause (some training partner I turned out to be), and managed to ride my sexy new bike so little the chain rusted (mechanic points to me for fixing it myself though).
Funny to read below about my “super high heart rate” of 189. I have regularly been clocking 198-200 lately both riding and jogging. Does this mean not enough exercise being done? My rapidly expanding waistline says so. Used to be Lance says no…. No chocolate cake, no beer. Now Lance says yes to all!
Time to get back into it, don’t want to lose my hard earned man legs, now do I?
Will upload more profiles when I can get time to do it!!