Training Log Archive: BB

Peloton of 5 with a win on the hill sprint today by just staving off Des - needed to use the old analog bike to win this sprint as the e bike top speed for the motor is not fast enough up the hill. Bonus at the coffee stop when a newby to the group handed out xmas presents of Aussie Butt Cream - his wife (and himself to a degree) run actually the company. Rode home by myself after making a detour to Kingston foreshore cycles to check up on an order - I think on this detour I picked up a puncture (fine wire in the tyre). So $25 later they had changed the tyre over to a new tube. Great riding weather.

C • Is the newbie 3

Campbell Park in the very looong grass - lot of use of the compass today as hard to see features in the terrain with that much grass - unsafe to run too hard for me. Virtually no grass seeds was a bonus.

Moderate 2 - Splits

Run with Grant on a new track that has just opened - grilla note - Strathnairn to Shepards Lookout and back. Link to track info below. Track a bit wet at the start and in the odd place but 95% it was nice for running/jogging. Contours thru some sections of nice pencil pine on steep ridges. Some great viewpoints on the way including a lookout that has a picture frame structure on it that captures a well known local painting of the same scene (albeit it is greener and bushier now than the paint scene).


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Rode with Des the day after he was crowned M75 ACT road cycling champ (he also beat the M70 field and came 3rd in M65). Used the ORBEA to be able to keep up with him - we did Stromlo then thru to the crit track to Denham Prospect, around edge of Coombs and Wright to the bike track thru to the arboretum - had a coffee after climbing Dairy Farmers Hill - then did west and central basin before I headed home. Sunny and still for a welcome change.

Sprint event at Gossan Hill - miss punched a control in the tricky maze section of the map (like a lot of others). This section of map was 1: 300 and involved 9 controls in two butterfly loops amongst a section of bushes - so a natural maze. Regrowth and high rainfall has thickened up other sections of the map so had to be careful and slow with control picking in a number of areas.