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Sunday May 2, 2010 #
10 AM
Cycling (MTB Bike) race (MTBO) 1:30:26 [3]
shoes: Giant XTC2 With XT Wheels
First MTBO race and I really need to do something about my Map reading abilities
Controls:
1 - Easy, caught an old guy that started 2 minutes in front of me.
2 - Easy, passed the old guy
4 - Long way out to 4. When I got there discovered that I had missed 3....oh crap. The line between 2 & 4 had 3 in between it and I did not realise.
3 - Was funny seeing all the people coming the other way in a non fun way...when I was riding in the same direction as them I advised them not to follow
5 - coming from 3 Went north through the middle and had a bit of trouble finding the track that cut between the road of control 4 & 5. Trees were fallen with no track on the other side...later finding them 20m another direction
6 - Easy to find, but a long way from 5. When going along the munda biddi to cross a dry river there was 2 options a bridge and the river...I took the river of course
7 - Easy to find...almost got knocked over by old guy coming from the hill it was on as he snaked his way though some sandy patches.
8 - Nice long ride up Dale road...getting tired by this stage
9 - Decided to take the track that did not follow the fence line so closely and ended up coming to a massive log on which there was no track on the other side and ended up having to bush bash about 100-150 towards the fence to get to the next track. Had boltboi fly past me not long before hitting 9. Nice bit of downhill that I did not want to come back up.
10 - Went the West side from 9 to avoid the hill...found 10 easy
11 - by this stage there were about 3-4 riders in front of me getting to the control. After leaving the control to the finish we had the river crossing....the other riders stopped trying to get out. So I had to do the same. Fast ride from the river back to the finish.
Had fun...loosened up the legs a little from the rogain, but overall very tired and not much energy left by the end of it.....bring on the lollies in the car!
Controls:
1 - Easy, caught an old guy that started 2 minutes in front of me.
2 - Easy, passed the old guy
4 - Long way out to 4. When I got there discovered that I had missed 3....oh crap. The line between 2 & 4 had 3 in between it and I did not realise.
3 - Was funny seeing all the people coming the other way in a non fun way...when I was riding in the same direction as them I advised them not to follow
5 - coming from 3 Went north through the middle and had a bit of trouble finding the track that cut between the road of control 4 & 5. Trees were fallen with no track on the other side...later finding them 20m another direction
6 - Easy to find, but a long way from 5. When going along the munda biddi to cross a dry river there was 2 options a bridge and the river...I took the river of course
7 - Easy to find...almost got knocked over by old guy coming from the hill it was on as he snaked his way though some sandy patches.
8 - Nice long ride up Dale road...getting tired by this stage
9 - Decided to take the track that did not follow the fence line so closely and ended up coming to a massive log on which there was no track on the other side and ended up having to bush bash about 100-150 towards the fence to get to the next track. Had boltboi fly past me not long before hitting 9. Nice bit of downhill that I did not want to come back up.
10 - Went the West side from 9 to avoid the hill...found 10 easy
11 - by this stage there were about 3-4 riders in front of me getting to the control. After leaving the control to the finish we had the river crossing....the other riders stopped trying to get out. So I had to do the same. Fast ride from the river back to the finish.
Had fun...loosened up the legs a little from the rogain, but overall very tired and not much energy left by the end of it.....bring on the lollies in the car!
C • Age 8
Saturday May 1, 2010 #
Event: WARA Autumn 12hr Rogaine
10 AM
Rogaine race 12:12:00 [3]
Andrew and myself were a little ambitious with a 60km route, however we thought it would be doable. Our plotted route choice was a 3000point target.
Started off alright and headed north and then around the course in a clockwise direction picking up all the 100 pointers on the East side of map. Around the north part of the map we mis shot a 90 pointer and spent a bit of time finding it. From this point we did ok and by the 6hr mark we had reached about the 32km mark. We were starting to fall back in our pace and then darkness arrived.
In the dark we had to cut our course. It was too much. Took a while finding some of the controls and by about 8pm we were still about 8km away from the hash and had to try and leg it back in. Well...not much of a leg it back in. We followed the road in parts to help find the controls a little easier.
With 40 minutes remaining we were still about 2-3km away from the hash and got stuck naving to a 40 pointer on the way back in. We gave into this and had to make it in as fast as possible (15 minutes left on the clock) we obviously missed a road on the way and found ourselves not knowing exactly where we were. We just had to take a guess bearing and go through thickets and dense scrub to finally find a road. This road was not the one though and we discovered it was still 1.5 km short of the hash (5minutes remaining). Back to bush bashing and we finally found another road that ran past the W side of the hash
As we found the road we saw the light....what a good sight that was. We ran/fast walked as fast as we could to get back to the hash and came in 12 minutes late. Phew...not disqualified.
I estimate that we must have covered about 50-55km of walking by the time we had missed controls and corrected.
my feet are sore now with blisters and muscles a bit tight still...at least i did not get cramps in the night.
Started off alright and headed north and then around the course in a clockwise direction picking up all the 100 pointers on the East side of map. Around the north part of the map we mis shot a 90 pointer and spent a bit of time finding it. From this point we did ok and by the 6hr mark we had reached about the 32km mark. We were starting to fall back in our pace and then darkness arrived.
In the dark we had to cut our course. It was too much. Took a while finding some of the controls and by about 8pm we were still about 8km away from the hash and had to try and leg it back in. Well...not much of a leg it back in. We followed the road in parts to help find the controls a little easier.
With 40 minutes remaining we were still about 2-3km away from the hash and got stuck naving to a 40 pointer on the way back in. We gave into this and had to make it in as fast as possible (15 minutes left on the clock) we obviously missed a road on the way and found ourselves not knowing exactly where we were. We just had to take a guess bearing and go through thickets and dense scrub to finally find a road. This road was not the one though and we discovered it was still 1.5 km short of the hash (5minutes remaining). Back to bush bashing and we finally found another road that ran past the W side of the hash
As we found the road we saw the light....what a good sight that was. We ran/fast walked as fast as we could to get back to the hash and came in 12 minutes late. Phew...not disqualified.
I estimate that we must have covered about 50-55km of walking by the time we had missed controls and corrected.
my feet are sore now with blisters and muscles a bit tight still...at least i did not get cramps in the night.
Thursday Apr 29, 2010 #
5 AM
Cycling (MTB Bike) (Commute) 1:06:00 [3] 29.0 km (26.4 kph)
ahr:158 max:165 slept:8.0 shoes: Giant XTC2 With XT Wheels
Ride to work with the fatty tyres on.
Good thing is that I have definetly got fitter since last year. I remember at points of the ride where I had time targets last year and even with the fatty tyres on today I was beating them by heaps :)
Good thing is that I have definetly got fitter since last year. I remember at points of the ride where I had time targets last year and even with the fatty tyres on today I was beating them by heaps :)
3 PM
Cycling (MTB Bike) (commute) 29:15 [3] 14.7 km (30.2 kph)
shoes: Giant XTC2 With XT Wheels
ride back to amanda's from work.
Had a bit of fun and a challenge as I chased down a roadie. Caught him, passed him, he caught me, passed me, I caught him, passed him....then he few past me down a hill and i could not catch him before he turned off. This was over about 8-9kms, so was happy with my effort.
Had a bit of fun and a challenge as I chased down a roadie. Caught him, passed him, he caught me, passed me, I caught him, passed him....then he few past me down a hill and i could not catch him before he turned off. This was over about 8-9kms, so was happy with my effort.
Wednesday Apr 28, 2010 #
3 PM
River paddling 1:55:00 [4] 19.0 km (6:03 / km)
shoes: Spirit PRS Ski
Here's one of many long paddle sessions.
Paddled from freshwater bay to the train bridge at freo. Headed back. Made a drinks stop just before aquarama and kept going. Back along to chidley point where I paddled across to point walter and had some portage to get across it. Kept paddleing and then hugged the river coast last claremont and at the back of CCGS. Then back to freshwater bay.
Had a bit of fun with currents under the old freo bridge as a boat came towards me and causing me to almost fill up. I was going through the smaller bits of bridge and the current was crazy.
between CCGS and freshwater bay went as hard as I could. It hurt, but a good hurt...if you get what i mean.
Overall happy with the session!
Paddled from freshwater bay to the train bridge at freo. Headed back. Made a drinks stop just before aquarama and kept going. Back along to chidley point where I paddled across to point walter and had some portage to get across it. Kept paddleing and then hugged the river coast last claremont and at the back of CCGS. Then back to freshwater bay.
Had a bit of fun with currents under the old freo bridge as a boat came towards me and causing me to almost fill up. I was going through the smaller bits of bridge and the current was crazy.
between CCGS and freshwater bay went as hard as I could. It hurt, but a good hurt...if you get what i mean.
Overall happy with the session!