Training Log Archive: grilla

Finally Bimberi Peak we got a 1 week window after months of closures for drought/fire risk, first damage, storm damage, COVID and just before winter season closure.

Really nice walking terrain and quite an easy walk in the end. Bush bashing a lot through fire damage and scrub up the peak itself but all the rest on fire trail. Nice and grassy fire trail in a lot of places too.

Spectacular day with lots of remnant frost and snow to add some interest. We took the bikes for first 3.5 km, just to reduce time on feet. It was a bit of a slog up over a ridge each way, but nice downhill as a reward. Certainly we saved a bit of time but the bike pushing was annoying.

One busybody out there who did not think we had left ourselves enough time (longer drive than expected) but apart from Bimberi itself we did move reasonably fast (relatively speaking for a family group). Bimberi was slow at about 30min/km, but we were keeping an eye on the time and knew at absolute worst we'd get back to the car before sunset. Setting up camp in the dark would have been a pain, but not an issue. In the end, coming down was very quick, Aoife didn't run out of oomph and we were back well in time to get to the campsite and set up before losing the light.

Very frosty early morning run with Nat. Kangaroo paddocks were amazingly white! Feeling OK but not pushing things. Saw Eoin and Aoife heading to O training as we came back down Banjalong. Had coffee and walked home... then realised the spare kay wasn't out as I'd left it in a more obvious place for the electrician yesterday and hadn't replaced it anywhere. Considered jogging over to O'Connor ridge to meet Eoin and Aoife but figured by the time I got there they would have finished and left... So hung around in the garden, trying to find warm and sunny spots for 40 mins. Finally Eoin and Aoife returned home, with a car key and no other keys! Luckily I now know there is a spare, spare key, otherwise there would have been some ladder climbing and balcony scaling involved. COLD for a quite while after this episode.

To Aoife's O training (official bag minted duties). And back afterwards not recorded.

Mt Rogers Maprun/Rogaine. Good fun and for last minute decisions and route planning a good choice I think. Missed 5 controls, we were pretty well done with 1 km to go... A steppingstones uphill finish, but it would have been that way regardless of any route choice earlier! With Nat, we started around the same time as quite a few others, and saw numerous people. out on course. A great idea and well "organised" for a virtual event.