Dion’s Exercise and …

Coolish weather, 12 C, very overcast but no real wind.

Felt really good, quite fast and a nice flowing ride. Nice to be out in the light as I usually do this in the early morning.We’ll see how I pull up tomorrow.

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 06/16/2007
• Time: 13:00:00
• Total Time: 2:02:20.20
• Average Heart rate: 143
• Max Heart rate: 165
• Calories: 1394
• Distance: 59.6 km
• Average Speed: 29.23 kmph
• Max Speed: 42.2 kmph
• Average Cadence: 85
• Max Cadence: 106

It’s been a touch busy the last couple of days. Finally got around to fitting new tyres to my city bike, at 11:30pm last night. That meant I could take Cadell to school on the tag-along and then head down for Pilates, finish off the kinder newsletter, then pick him up after lunch. Luckily, although it was pretty cold, 5 C, it was nice and sunny. After the usual round of house jobs, washing, dinner, etc, it was off to school to pickup Declan and then up to their swimming class, in the car this time.
Thankfully, they are now both in class at the same time so I can go and have a swim whilst they are bobbing around in their lessons. Managed to get a kilometer in and then make it gasping back to see the end of their lessons. Home after that, to finish tidying up, get dinner, clean up dinner, listen to piano practice, etc. Get the boys into bed, do the shopping list for tomorrow, more washing and update the finances. Phew, I’m exhausted, so the plans of logging all this great exercise in will have to wait until tomorrow after I upload the data from my heart rate monitor, do the shopping, unpack ……

20 laps, 50 M outdoor pool, bit chilly out of the water but nice once in. Heartrate monitor had a major interference problem or maybe this goes to prove it’s more due to bad contact between the sensors and my chest. I’ll upload an image of the HR graph, well I’ll try at least ! … Then again maybe I was really pumping today, or at least my heart was !

Workout:

• Type: Swim
• Date: 06/14/2007
• Time: 16:33:00
• Total Time: 00:23:12.00
• Average Heart rate: 170
• Max Heart rate: 225
• Calories: 370
• Distance: 1,000 m
• Average Pace: 2:19/100m

Hmm, forgot to stop the HR a few times on this ride. Need to fit a computer to the city bike now everythings being recorded !

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 06/14/2007
• Time: 11:50:00
• Total Time: 00:20:00.00
• Average Heart rate: 115
• Max Heart rate: 156
• Distance: 5.5 km
• Average Speed: 16.5 kmph

Nice workout, should loosen me up for the week.

Workout:

• Type: Flexibility
• Date: 06/14/2007
• Time: 10:00:00
• Total Time: 00:01:30.00

Short trip on the City Bike to school then kinder, through the city to pilates. No Polar sensors on the City bike, so it’s all a bit rough !

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 06/14/2007
• Time: 09:46:00
• Total Time: 00:17:00.00
• Average Heart rate: 120
• Max Heart rate: 144
• Distance: 5.5 km
• Average Speed: 19.41 kmph

With my wife away, my main exercise time, early mornings, is gone. Oh well, I guess I’ll call this a rest week. Got Pilates and a swim tomorrow so that’s better then nothing. Need to change the flat on my city bike so I can ride there as well ….

Had another blast around today. Everything felt a bit more fluid so I was going faster with no crashes ! Hit the main jump a bit fast a few times, not used to that much air ! Declan thought I was going to crash on one where he said my back wheel was right up in the air !

Enough of the motorized stuff until the next visit ….

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 06/11/2007
• Time: 11:30:00
• Total Time: 00:30:00.00

Spent an hour and a half burning around my brother’s Motocross track on his dirt bikes. He’s got a 230cc and a 600, one small and nimble, the other fast…. A great upper body and leg work out though it does tend to torque my knees a bit. Great for the high speed bicycle control, lots of sideways practice. Only crashed twice, which is better then the last time I was out ! Washed out the front wheel both times and then tumbled along the ground, but that’s what all that safety gear is for !

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 06/10/2007
• Time: 14:15:00
• Total Time: 1:30:00.00

and hello Brad !

You have been a very busy boy since I left town … still looking through the site but I’ll have to start posting soon …