Have just spent the long weekend at Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Ranges. Its the highest peak in Western Australia at approx 1050metres. Looked at it thinking Dee has to climb 6 times this height at Kilimanjaro in around 12 weeks. Actually, the Bluff Knoll carpark is around 350m above sea level so its only [...]

As most of you know, just over a week ago, near the end of a 15km run around Deepwater Pt, I felt my right calf muscle give way (what I was doing with a cow strapped on me I’ll never know! Ok, just kidding!) And I was only half a km from finishing the run. [...]

Tackling around 20kms of the Bibbulmun track this weekend - no overnight stay though. Calf muscle pulled last Saturday running twice around the Deepwater Pt circuit. Funny because I can cycle fine but running/walking hurts. I had a good run last Thu night with a 12km run involving a 2min neg split. Soccer final on [...]

Time for a training update. As most of you know, I’ve had Bronchitis the last 3 weeks and really only felt fully fit again on Saturday in the shop bike ride (60kms). We have some fast guys on board now (eg Rod Mejias, Luke Hardy, Robbie (Sth African dude), Richard Kelly, Guy Pritchard, Brendan McSweeney,Grant [...]

Life is certainly that - fleeting! We were struck with some sad news this week. A group of Corpus Christi students were killed in a car accident. The driver was a young man we’d come to know very well, James Klessens (or Big Jim as I called him). He was one of Matt’s best mates through Yidarra [...]