For those of you uninitiated, Jacob’s ladder in Perth is near King’s Park (Bellevue Tce). Its around 270 steps and it attracts a multitude of zombies. Zombies is the appropriate word because we all get ‘in the zone’ at Jacob’s ladder. Today, it was 1hr 50mins of climbing at two steps at a time. I [...]

Yesterday was a long trip up to Lancelin for around 630 riders (another record field) in the cyclosportif. It was said that Toodyay Shire actually did us a favour with their lack of cooperation by making us look for an even better venue in Lancelin. Nick drove us in his big Ford Transit and it [...]

We arrived at Busselton around 3.30pm on the Friday 2nd May so we checked into Geographe Bayview then off to register. Registration was very smooth. I saw a bike called an Orbea Ordu Pro that was orange and black also - I wondered if its owner may want to swap with my orange and black [...]

Well, there’s at least 1800 of you out there competing in this event on Saturday 3 May at Busselton. Here’s how it looks from the start of the swim!
 
The town will be brimming with extra people from tomorrow to Sunday no doubt. My bike, ‘Sparkles’ (so named as the dude who painted the frame threw [...]