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Monday Nov 23, 2020 #
9 AM
Cycling 1:01:00 [3] 23.0 km (2:39 / km)
Monday would normally be a swim session, but I couldn't work out how to make a booking for Warrnambool's pool without already being a member (I get the sense that this is one regional setting where people from Melbourne will be persona non grata for a while yet), so instead I stopped for a ride on my way to the Grampians. (Hawkesdale, my start point, has a pool of its own - and they seem quite proud of it because its 1969 opening features on the town's history timeline - but it only opens weekends).
This was a reasonably flat ride with only a few small hills, mostly early and late. Quite windy, more crosswind than anything else but tending towards favourable in the second half. Didn't feel as if I had much energy early on, but built into it and the last 30 minutes were a nice cruise through Western District farming country on a quiet road.
My main sightseeing plan for the day was to climb Mount Abrupt, but it was in cloud so I did Mount Sturgeon instead (the last peak at the southern end of the range, overlooking Dunkeld). Impressive views to be had from there, and more impressive ones from various lookouts closer to Halls Gap later in the day (the cloud had mostly lifted by mid-afternoon).
Calves were pretty tight at times post-ride, so maybe that's the trigger for them? Hopefully they'll settle overnight as I don't think I'd have fancied trying to run on them this afternoon, although walking was OK.
This was a reasonably flat ride with only a few small hills, mostly early and late. Quite windy, more crosswind than anything else but tending towards favourable in the second half. Didn't feel as if I had much energy early on, but built into it and the last 30 minutes were a nice cruise through Western District farming country on a quiet road.
My main sightseeing plan for the day was to climb Mount Abrupt, but it was in cloud so I did Mount Sturgeon instead (the last peak at the southern end of the range, overlooking Dunkeld). Impressive views to be had from there, and more impressive ones from various lookouts closer to Halls Gap later in the day (the cloud had mostly lifted by mid-afternoon).
Calves were pretty tight at times post-ride, so maybe that's the trigger for them? Hopefully they'll settle overnight as I don't think I'd have fancied trying to run on them this afternoon, although walking was OK.