A pretty good summary of the week since Monday. Been commuting on the Colnago (bright yellow and red) - you cant miss it, together with my Colnago top, orange gloves and orange socks. Please don’t ask me what statement I’m making - it certainly isn’t a fashion statement.
 Thursday’s running training was just hard. I’m trying [...]

Here he comes….here comes ‘fast walker’ (same tune as Speed Racer!). I had an interesting training week. Last Thursday, 19 June, I had a hard running training session with Raf Baugh. Both Sally and Genessa in no mood to wait for passengers so it was another tough workout. 3kms of warm up, 6kms of hard [...]

I was amazed at how many people rocked up for the Perth Half Marathon. Very well organised and pretty wet conditions. I have to learn not to start at the back of the line as I lose a couple of minutes dawdling at the start. Anyway I got up to the halfway at UWA at [...]

Last night, Raf promised a training session that would be a ’sharpener’ for the Perth Half Marathon. We did around 6km of running at ‘5km’ pace in total and, as usual, around 3kms of warm up running and 3kms of warm down. I know its doing me good but its very challenging.  I’ll get my [...]

Last Friday was a moderate effort at Jacob’s ladder in preparation for Sunday’s Central Park Tower climb. I saw Isaac there putting in a moderate training effort (has to be a first for him. He’s an amazing stairclimber).
 Saturday’s cycle with Bikeforce Southern River was solid with a good sprint along Riverside drive and some good [...]

Dee’s getting all her gear, intinerary and training sharpened for her Mts Meru and Kilimanjaro trek in January 2009. We expect Foxtel will show the Kili documentaries again soon. I’ll scour the internet for some CDs and/or books. I am back on track to do the Central Park Tower stairclimb on Sunday 8 June after [...]