Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Getting through eight events in 10 days was a bit too much to ask for; my back didn't feel good warming up, but I thought I'd see what it was like in the terrain, got an answer within a couple of minutes and became the first of many to do the walk of shame into the finish. Probably picked a good one to miss (suffice it to say that the M45A winning time, if expressed in hours and minutes, started with a 2) - not quite sure why the winning times were so out both days given that there's a reasonable amount of data on how slow Seldom Seen is (and unlike Gumble, I don't think it's thickened greatly over time; most of its slowness comes from the rocks and the fallen timber).

Somewhat unusual route choice as I have a meeting in Echuca tomorrow morning (which at least made the afternoon drive a bit shorter). Didn't take me through any completely uncharted territory, but it's the first time I've done the Jerilderie-Conargo-Deniliquin route since the early 1990s (it lies on a possible Kooyoora-Canberra route choice, albeit one which is relatively less attractive now that there's a lot more freeway on the Hume now than there was 30 years ago). I suspect the Conargo pub made more money from selling bumper stickers (you'll see them on utes and 4WDs all over rural Australia) than from selling beer, even before it burnt down in 2014 (only the facade remains).

C • Route choice 4

Results now out. Only one person in any A class from age 18 upwards broke 80 (Geoff Lawford, 74 in M65A).