Training Log Archive: peterprong

The cross island trek started well...
All the teams had to head up into the mountains following a fire trail in the dark and then following a taped route across the island. All teams missed the taped route, which was poorly marked at the turnoff. Teams headed up and down looking for the turnoff. I decided that people could be here until sun rise and that if this was a normal rogaine we would just navigate to the first CP. No problem.. If we went too high we would hit a cliff line, and if we went too far right we would hit the marked trail. There however was no cliff line and the marked train would be almost impossible to see. We saw neither and hours later decided to head back to the road surrounding the island. We then came back across the original fire road, walked down and found the marked trail, and headed off 3 hours after any other team.
The trek was really cool with massive figs and with hardly any undergrowth.
Finished with a cool waterfall abseil and finished just as the pig on the spit was cooked.
Cool race

long ride with some big hills that everyone pushed their bikes up and lost time at the start looking for bonus cps. Cross the island on the road then down some rough single track to a village and across to survivor beach. Back up a huge hill to then drop back down to a bike drop while dropping some compulsory cps on the way to the bike boxes to make the time cuttoff. Diabolical out rigging (wading while pushing the canoe as we couldnt work out how to do it properly) (Meyer 2010)..
Spent a little while filling up on food and cooling down in the water during what i thought was an untimed section. This however screwed us later.
We could only find one of the 6 compulsory CPs on the outriggers, so in the 90min we were swimming and pushing the boat we lost 2.5hrs..(i think they dropped this leg out of the final standings.
We now didnt have enough time to complete the whole on land rogaine, to make sure we didnt get more penalties for missing the finish cut off.
I completed the untimed rope climb and an abseil while ben showed his aim in archery and snorkelling orienteering skills.
Still finished the day in 3rd.

Event: Race Vanuatu
 

Easy group ride escorted by the police to the start of the prologue

Cool prologue around the village of Mele and the upper cascades. All teams lost time with the maps and there was a cool section where some local kids lead us around to help find the controls. Finished with 'Lazy' dave 'cramp man' meyer and Steven 'Steveo' Todkill at the end. (Meyer 2010)

Now i have tonsillitis... ben and i are going to make such a great team next week...

C • crap. 2

Found out my Merida has a crack in the frame!! going to battle to get a bike by next week

C • merida 1

Run around centennial park. Took a small light that wasnt good enough so just ran around the path loop.

Quick late arvo paddle.

Got called into work when i was on my way out to lunch, lucky i had my running stuff so i got to go for a run in between scans.

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6 Figure 8 laps around the park.
9'06
9'02
'9'13
9'36
9'20
9'33

1'17
1'18
1'13
1'24
1'24
1'19
1'24
1'29

Tired tonight.

Just cruised around double bay/rose bay and back

Tried to do some intervals but am stuffed.
3'41
3'41
3'49

Really nice morning ride. Met ezy(21 powergels and a deep fried turkey) meyer at pymble, and then mounty on bobbin head road.
Cruised around the 4 gorges, with Ezy attacking all the climbs, but he had too much power breaking his chain coming out of Galston gorge. Mounty and i being dirty spaniards attacked and made up the 30minutes it took ezy to get back on the bike.