Monthly Archives: July 2005

sunday ride

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I did yet another epic ride today after giving the motorcycle a good polish yesterday. Lofty -> Stirling -> Lenswood? -> Lobethal and down lobethal road. I’m getting heaps better at handling the bumps when cornering, and committing myself to corners. I really need my new suit to wear in though, as it’s constantly pulling my back up straight, which isn’t good when I’m trying to push the bike down. Hopefully a few more wears and they’ll get more comfortable. I got passed coming down lobethal road by two brand new CBR600RR’s. I heard them coming from behind me for a while inbetween corners, and eventually they caught up. I tried to keep up with those two riders but lost them pretty quickly. I hope with regular riding my skills will improve at least to their standard. Going to ‘bike school’ at the race track will be great for my development I’m sure. After seeing those Honda’s today I’m definitely now excluding the R6 from my shortlist of next bike to progress to, and now I’m down to either wanting the Honday or the Ninja ZX-6R. My friend got a Ninja 750 on Friday, I’m looking forward to seeing it.

half marathon

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Today I ran one of the biggest runs I’ve done in the last few months, approximately half a marathon (21k) maybe a touch more. I am a bit annoyed that I forgot to press ‘start’ for the first 20 minutes of my heart rate data, and due to electrical interference it stopped recording the last 20 or so minutes. The curve below shows 1 hour 15 minutes of running, so it was probably around 15 minutes of running. Since I can do 12k in 55 minutes easy, and I was running about the same pace, linearly interpolating one could deduce that the run today was 25.1 k’s. Although, I would have been only outputting about 80 – 90% the pace compared to when my body is fully conditioned such as I was in the summer, and hence my estimate of 21k’s. I should really measure this distance for reference as I’d say I’m the furthest from the form I was in over the summer before ITBFS, so I could establish a good training floor with this data. It’s a pity I didn’t manage to record it all.

Heart Rate Curve

I should really start working now on pace rather than endurance, as I want to get into the top 150 of the City to Bay fun run this year. There ya go, it’s in writing now Tom so there’s no excuses! I was originally aiming for top 100 this year, but after the problems with my knee and ITBFS I’m going to settle for top 150. I should however be able to get a placing in this years Black Hill Challenge.

I decided to pass up an invite to go to the Grand tonight (speaking of which, I should have gone on Thursday night where they were celebrating Hoff’s b’day, with $4 Hofftails!) as I know I’m going to collapse very shortly. It’s 9:37, and I’m going to bed – weird!

Tonight we had Matt as a Celebrity Chef – definitely close competition to Kath & Morv’s curry, although many factors are yet to be considered.

Gap in time…

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Well I haven’t posted any stuff on here for a bit, but randomonly I’ll try and note some of the events since the last post.

It’s my Dad’s birthday today, so happy birthday Dad!!! :-D I’ll see you tomorrow night at dinner! :)

I learnt how to play the D chord on a guitar at Jordan’s house on Sunday night, with Ben and Adz. I guess you could say I’m pretty confident with the “D”. I made a song about it, too!

Monday and Tuesday night we had Brownyn and Kim Celebrity Chef for us, and that should be written up ASAP. I am falling waaaay behind with C.C. matters, but shall hopefully catch up over the weekend.

Last night Kami had her going away drinks, and we will all miss her dearly. I can’t remember exactly, but I’m pretty sure she’s going to meet up with Sarah at some stage, which I’m sure then they’ll both have an awesome time! Speaking of which, I haven’t heard much from Sarah which probably means she’s quite well occupied and enjoying her time!

It’s uni holidays at the moment, and I’m getting some good work done here now that it’s a bit quieter. It’s getting a lot harder for me, I’m in the middle of doing some (fairly) difficult maths I never thought I’d have to do after I finished my last ever maths subject.

Other news, I’m hoping to do some work for a friend of my parents, an entrepreneur. Hopefully I’ll get some first hand experience of what it’s like to start a business, which I’d say should be a very good investment of time and effort. I went to a “commercial perspective” workshop on Tuesday, which has stimulated my entrepreneurial curiosity again since high school days.

I’ve also decided this week I’m definitely going to go to the Mallala race track to practise some more advanced riding under instructor supervision in “bike school”. I plan to get my next bike around November, so learning this bike well should relatively improve my bike skills greater in the long run.

I almost forgot – I had lunch with Toey last week – It’s amazing and inspiring to talk to him every time, this time he told me he had just been practising tennis this morning, and I asked him who with. In a completely normal/casual tone of voice, he dropped the name of a famous female tennis player, like top ten sort of thing!

fixing computers

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Today i had the privilege of fixing a family friends computer, although i didn’t finish. It’ll definitely be a format and start from scratch job – but at least it’s a fast computer so it *should* only take a few hours. This will probably be at least the 10th computer I’ve formatted for people.