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I’v e just come back from climbing Bluff Knoll, WA’s highest peak. Funny name….until we realized that some lady descending from the top would tell us we were nearly there…..when we were around half way up. Bluff mole!  
Just saw Hugh Jackman’s  castigation of a front row audience member whose mobile phone [...]

 
How the heck are we all? Let’s hope the real Spring weather visits soon. Dee and I knocked off a Bridges run recently and it was just a fantastic day….well….for anything! Dee put in a solid 146bpm average and just kept great form. I’m really enjoying her journey toward her first marathon much more than I [...]

Written by the oldest person to compete at the Beijing Olympics, Japanese equestrian Hiroshi Hoketsu. I just thought it was a great quote to start you all off today. Geez, no posts since 23 June. I’ve been a bit slack. I was supposed to have started my 20 week training program on Monday for the [...]

This weeks training has been low key at best. On Wednesday, joined what seemed like hundreds of people filing up and down Jacob’s Ladder. There from 5.30pm to around 6.45pm. It’s funny but if you haven’t done this for a while, you underestimate the impact of this exercise. I know I do - I was comfortable [...]

Been a long time between drinks. I didn’t end up doing Cyclosportif Lancelin as we simply didn’t have enough team members. For the upcoming event on 28 June at the Swan Valley, we have a team…..thank God!
This morning, around 10 of us transferred to doing the Cyclebuzz ride. It was a 6.30am start and pretty [...]

On 10 May 2009, as a 45yo bloke, I achieved a milestone that encourages and enthuses me both as an athlete and as a cyclist. For a 20km time trial at Champion Lakes in Western Australia, I achieved a 40kph average speed. Dead on! Now for just over a third of the field who achieved [...]

Accommodation booked at Beachlands. Starting some 80min runs now. Swimming still has a fair bit to go. I’d like to think I can knock off 1.9km swimming strongly and between 35 to 40mins. The bike continues to be the challenge. Can I get an average better than 36kph? I’ve been very close with the ATTA [...]

I have to say the last couple of days have been the hardest riding I’ve done in a while (if not in distance, certainly in intensity). The SAT AM 60km ride was reeled off in 1hr 45m which, with around 21 sets of traffic lights to negotiate, is probably one of the quicker ones we’ve [...]

Try this one at home. If there is a word like climb that you can pronounce like Kath and Kim would ( eg ‘cloimb’) , then do it. It will become addictive. Fairly long time between drinks - I did want to confirm that Dee actually scaled Mt Kilimanjaro ( and Mt Lemangrut and Mt [...]

Well, I just got off the phone briefly to Dee but the connection was very scratchy. She and the other 6 climbers are descending Mt Kilimanjaro as I type this. I couldn’t even extract from her whether she had summited. So that information is pending.
She sounds good though. Now its time for her to chill [...]