Good evening people!
First of all, sorry to hear Chc folk are still getting knocked around, I hope it settles down properly for you soon, no body needs that action.
Now, training is still going great, and tonight I realised I've made the shift in balance from sitting on my bike thinking about work, to sitting at work thinking about my bike.... Only when work is not busy of course... or I am doing system training....
I got six inches cut off my hair - I figured a less grams might help me go a little faster...and on my last ride I did average 0.9 km/hr faster...that has to be good right? I guess I need to try shaving my head next!
I ordered brand spanking new pedals - they are now winging their way from Europe. I will slowly upgrade my bike one component at a time! New bar tape next. Tim was right, I really do need to replace it (don't tell him he was right...)
Ok, well, any Chc people want t come hang out in the Taupo Volcanic Zone let me know!
Till next time
love
Ironmaiden
Monday, June 13, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Fun with carrots!
Hi Everyone
I hope you are all in as rude good health as me.
I am stoked about how I have achieved a full compliment of awesomeness this week (don't you love how arrogant I am?). Training just seems to be feeling really good, I have lots of energy and bounce from one session to the next.
I have a new gizmo - a GPS heart rate monitor that tells me how fast I am going, how far I've come, and how hard my poor little ticker is having to fizz away. And that it is indeed still fizzing away, which is always reassuring.
So I got some carrots out of my garden for dinner, and have found like all good root vegetables they are growing in my image! Take a look!
OK, well now we are just being silly.
Till next time,
love
Ironmaiden
I hope you are all in as rude good health as me.
I am stoked about how I have achieved a full compliment of awesomeness this week (don't you love how arrogant I am?). Training just seems to be feeling really good, I have lots of energy and bounce from one session to the next.
I have a new gizmo - a GPS heart rate monitor that tells me how fast I am going, how far I've come, and how hard my poor little ticker is having to fizz away. And that it is indeed still fizzing away, which is always reassuring.
So I got some carrots out of my garden for dinner, and have found like all good root vegetables they are growing in my image! Take a look!
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| This is me stretching my glutes! |
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| This is me going running! |
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| This one is just a mutant but it was tasty. |
Till next time,
love
Ironmaiden
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Home, spinach and cramp
Kia Ora everyone!
It is marvellous to be home, I have come back to some clear winter weather and Taupo is glorious.
I've thrown myself into getting back into a proper training regime and my coach hasn't wasted anytime getting me a new programme up and running. My holiday has worked a treat and I've come back with the body feeling great and rearing to go.
My vegetable garden has been trucking along while I've been away, so I am hoping my spinach will have a similar effect as Popeye's did, and with my new big arm muscles I can look forward to seeing a serious improvement in my swimming (and bashing bad guys of course).
I'm still getting a bit of cramp, but I am still collecting ideas for remedies, and so far stretching seems to be the key - its always good to have a strategy.
Here I am warming up for the Strasbourg race (the day before, in Kehl, Germany). The locals there were very supportive of my Ironmaiden campaign, even the giant mosquitoes.
Till next time!
love
Ironmaiden
It is marvellous to be home, I have come back to some clear winter weather and Taupo is glorious.
I've thrown myself into getting back into a proper training regime and my coach hasn't wasted anytime getting me a new programme up and running. My holiday has worked a treat and I've come back with the body feeling great and rearing to go.
My vegetable garden has been trucking along while I've been away, so I am hoping my spinach will have a similar effect as Popeye's did, and with my new big arm muscles I can look forward to seeing a serious improvement in my swimming (and bashing bad guys of course).
I'm still getting a bit of cramp, but I am still collecting ideas for remedies, and so far stretching seems to be the key - its always good to have a strategy.
Till next time!
love
Ironmaiden
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
In Bruges
Well, I am. And Belgium is not hugely conducive to training. The beer, the chocolate, the frites...not to mention the kamakaze cyclists trying to kill me, the swans and themselves, and the nastiest street cobbles yet (I really should wear sturdier shoes, my feet are so sore!).
But rest easy, Icelandic Volcanoes permitting, I will be making my home on the weekend, hanging out to get home and back into proper training.
Until then,
love
Ironmaiden
But rest easy, Icelandic Volcanoes permitting, I will be making my home on the weekend, hanging out to get home and back into proper training.
Until then,
love
Ironmaiden
Friday, May 20, 2011
Strasbourg, Switzerland and knees...
Hello!
Sorry, it has been a wee while, but I've been exploring the world in which I live. And enjoying the spring sunshine but lets not go on and on about that. Too much more. But it is just so nice...
Anyway, I did my 10k race in Strasbourg - I say race, I mean wheezy shuffle, successfully. I was not (quite) last, and I enjoyed the experience. Lots of French people lined the street calling out encouraging things in French that I couldn't understand (I suppose some of them may have been saying "You look like your are going to collapse, you should stop!", but I couldn't tell the difference). It was very amusing to hear the very excitable French commentator call my name as I galloped (shuffled) towards the finish line. Strasbourg is a very beautiful city and well worth visiting.
I have to say recovery for my old bones was fairly slow, I've just spent the last three days in Switzerland with Juliane who looked after me magnificently. Training took a back seat while I soaked up Swiss ( and French) sunshine, cheese and chocolate. I promise I still got lots of incidental exercise as I wandered the streets of cosmopolitan Geneva and its more picturesque medieval neighbours.
I went for a run this morning though, and feel terrific for it.
Enough for now! I'll post a photo when I figure out how.
A bientot
Bisous
Fer Mademoiselle
Sorry, it has been a wee while, but I've been exploring the world in which I live. And enjoying the spring sunshine but lets not go on and on about that. Too much more. But it is just so nice...
Anyway, I did my 10k race in Strasbourg - I say race, I mean wheezy shuffle, successfully. I was not (quite) last, and I enjoyed the experience. Lots of French people lined the street calling out encouraging things in French that I couldn't understand (I suppose some of them may have been saying "You look like your are going to collapse, you should stop!", but I couldn't tell the difference). It was very amusing to hear the very excitable French commentator call my name as I galloped (shuffled) towards the finish line. Strasbourg is a very beautiful city and well worth visiting.
I have to say recovery for my old bones was fairly slow, I've just spent the last three days in Switzerland with Juliane who looked after me magnificently. Training took a back seat while I soaked up Swiss ( and French) sunshine, cheese and chocolate. I promise I still got lots of incidental exercise as I wandered the streets of cosmopolitan Geneva and its more picturesque medieval neighbours.
I went for a run this morning though, and feel terrific for it.
Enough for now! I'll post a photo when I figure out how.
A bientot
Bisous
Fer Mademoiselle
Thursday, May 12, 2011
La Piscine Olympique
Bon jour à tous
France is treating me very well indeed - perhaps a little too well? Either gravity exerts a stronger force here or I have been a little too eager in my patronage of the local fromagerie et boulangerie.
My hosts, Sarah and Matt, have landed themselves in a fabulous part of the country, and turned on some superb spring weather for me (including a dramatic thunderstorm early this morning that I diligently slept through).
My coach has emailed me to "remind me" of my goals for March, so cheese, pastries and bread cannot completely dominate my attention. I've been for a couple of runs, no easy task on ruggedly cobbled streets (dodging the traffic that insists on coming from the wrong direction), and this morning I ventured to the other side of town for a swim in Dijon's very new, very impressive olympic swimming pool. I was so impressed I left them my watch to remember me by. Opps. Don't worry, I have a spare. My arms had the jetlag so it as like trying to swim with two pieces of over cooked spaghetti dangling off my shoulders, but the beauty of an olympic pool is that you do seem to clock up the ks quite easily.
So there you are - my training perhaps isn't as focussed as it was, but it does continue.
Sarah and I are off to Strasbourg in the morning, we have a 10km race there, then she has convinced, me we should enter another here in Dijon the following weekend. So it will be good to have a couple of events under my belt.
A bientot,
bisousFer madamoiselle
France is treating me very well indeed - perhaps a little too well? Either gravity exerts a stronger force here or I have been a little too eager in my patronage of the local fromagerie et boulangerie.
My hosts, Sarah and Matt, have landed themselves in a fabulous part of the country, and turned on some superb spring weather for me (including a dramatic thunderstorm early this morning that I diligently slept through).
My coach has emailed me to "remind me" of my goals for March, so cheese, pastries and bread cannot completely dominate my attention. I've been for a couple of runs, no easy task on ruggedly cobbled streets (dodging the traffic that insists on coming from the wrong direction), and this morning I ventured to the other side of town for a swim in Dijon's very new, very impressive olympic swimming pool. I was so impressed I left them my watch to remember me by. Opps. Don't worry, I have a spare. My arms had the jetlag so it as like trying to swim with two pieces of over cooked spaghetti dangling off my shoulders, but the beauty of an olympic pool is that you do seem to clock up the ks quite easily.
So there you are - my training perhaps isn't as focussed as it was, but it does continue.
Sarah and I are off to Strasbourg in the morning, we have a 10km race there, then she has convinced, me we should enter another here in Dijon the following weekend. So it will be good to have a couple of events under my belt.
A bientot,
bisousFer madamoiselle
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Au revoir!
My last blog from these fair shores for a few weeks! But don't worry, I'll be back!
I'm off to visit friends in the Old World for a little holiday. The weather forecast is looking good and to be honest I am excited about a little bit of time off.
My training is continuing, I am resting my sore calf muscle but it is feeling really good now, so I am looking forward to doing some running again.
My first event of the Ironmaiden Campaign will be a 10k "foot race" in Strasbourg, France. Or somewhere near there. I just really hope the course is easy to follow, I am not so good at understanding directions in French!
I'll let you know how I get on, there might even be photos! Hopefully I will also be able to find a swimming pool to train in from time to time as well.
Stay cool till after school!
love
Ironmaiden
I'm off to visit friends in the Old World for a little holiday. The weather forecast is looking good and to be honest I am excited about a little bit of time off.
My training is continuing, I am resting my sore calf muscle but it is feeling really good now, so I am looking forward to doing some running again.
My first event of the Ironmaiden Campaign will be a 10k "foot race" in Strasbourg, France. Or somewhere near there. I just really hope the course is easy to follow, I am not so good at understanding directions in French!
I'll let you know how I get on, there might even be photos! Hopefully I will also be able to find a swimming pool to train in from time to time as well.
Stay cool till after school!
love
Ironmaiden
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