Just concluding an excellent weekend of training. Was off training ill for most of last week but had another excellent physio session with Kylie on Friday; always come out of there feeling really good :-D. Work has been pretty mental with the first week of the new term so I put in a few extra hours to get on top of things.
Saturday was a recovery ride - a 170km loop around the Hawkesbury valley starting at Turramurra & taking in: Galston Gorge, Maroota, Wisemans Ferry, Gunderman, Spencer, Mangrove Creek, Peats Ridge to Calga along part of the ATTA time trial route, then returning along the Old Highway (Mt. White, Brooklyn, Pie in the Sky) and back to Turramurra via Hornsby.
Its a beautiful ride, it was a perfect day, Ursula was running smooth and we had a great crew (10 of us). Click here for pics and maps! Thanks to Walter Stanish for 2 of the images.
Stats were as follows: Distance 170km, Average 27 kph, Total Time 7h, Total Dist Climbed 2000m, Time in Re: 2h10, Time in E1 3h05, Time above E1 17 min (oops!), Average HR 118 (right between Re and E1 as it was supposed to be :-D).
On Sunday I ran 16km over to Manly for the Cole Classic.
Met up with my mates Mick, Tony and Piers for the 2km Classic Challenge. Good results all round for the 4 of us:
Michael hasn't been training much but cruised home in the 20-24 wave with a 20 second lead (although he is a bit of a swim freak and won the whole event in 2002). I'd only talked Piers and Tony into it the night before and they both had awesome races. I was really happy with my swim but somehow managed to end up in the 13-15 Category with an extra 5 min on my time!!! LOL. Interestingly enough I wouldn't have made the top 10, not even in the 13-15 girls!!! Click here for results
Sydney is an amazing place to train! Bring on some more :-D
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Reading the statistics makes me wish i was this healthy, i like to think i'm relatively in shape, however i doubt its anywhere near this level... although currently, i don't think i could run 5m... Dunstan knows why!!
-- Richard
Richard dropped an 18-inch speaker on his foot and broke it. OUCH!!!
He's in a cast, but I can't sign it from here.
I hope it heals fast and well and that you get plenty of sympathy from nice girls!
I was there the night of the bridge stack. The man refused drugs - I can vouch for that. Maybe Dunstan could catalogue his many scars and stitches for us...
Perhaps you were put in the 13-15 category because you are so short?
So D. we fixed your results dude... CC.
Hello Dunstan, one question about your bike, well 3 actually. Firstly why name it. Is it that good it rolls up to you when you call it? Secondly why Ursala, why not is not an answer? Finally is Ursala the best ride you've experienced?
Benno
170km on a bike!! for fun!! its a top effort!! do you have a little ceremony or anything when you name your bike?
(this might be wrong, but didn't richard (if this is tydeman) break his foot falling of a curb?)
haggis
Aimed at Greer. So is your bike a male or female, and how does one determine the sex of their machine. The reason for asking is that if mine is male I am going to castrate it so that it goes faster.
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