Training Log Archive: Bomb

fun race at mt tarengower. nearly missed my start - had stuffed around dropping Dan and Ash in Daylesford so ended up a bit too late, then got caught behind some slow traffic and ended up arriving 7 mins before my start. the first few controls were a bit rushed, and made mistakes on 2 and 5 (going way too high). then got passed by tooms and brucey and tried to stay on that train for as long as possible. so last part of the course was good, but I'd lost too much time by then. feet pretty sore.

warm down only

rode from creswick to ballarat on the goldfields trail with Dan.

Event: XMAS 5 Days
 

Day 1 of xmas 5days at sailors creek. took a few controls to remember how to do the whole O thing, but got going eventually. some typical sailors creek slogs up green hills, and some wild erosion gully crossings, but then the last loop in the mining was great.
hot day and had some pretty huge blisters that were making it pretty hard to run by the end. first of the girls and scored some very yummy bickies.

morning lap of stromlo before driving to vic.

christmas morning ride at stromlo (ash had a great stack on one of the tabletops out the back), and afternoon followup lap. was going to ride at kowen or somewhere else, but the tracks at stromlo are too awesome to bother going anywhere else (we were camping at cotter also).
great way to spend christmas...
and santa brought me pink ay-ups!

stuffed after yesterday, and I'm on driving duty to pick the boys up after doing the 6 ft track.

cruised down the stairs at the 3 sisters to see how far down 900 stairs really is (a long way apparently), and then off course had to run/walk/climb back up. nice benchmark, should be easy to beat if I go there again without rain and tourists, and with shoes instead of plugs (time includes one re-plugging)

ride out to narrow neck. way easier and shorter than I remember (bit of an epic last year when I was sick). very glad for tubeless tyres - no pinch flats for me!! (ash not so lucky)

easy little evening ride at kanangra walls (or at least thats what it was sold as) nice view of the sunset hitting the cliffs, and saw some cool black cockatoos with red heads.

cruisy ride in the sand dune tracks from mylestrom (sth of coffs). would be great area for O - awesome sanddunes with nice runnable rainforest.

playing in the jumps park in mylestrom after driving all day