Saturday Nov 3 |
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| Event: Australian MTBO Middle Distance
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 | Mountain Bike Orienteering race (Australian Middle Distanc) 2:07:00 [5] 18 km (7:03 / km) | |
| shoes: Wellgo MTB |
| Steep and Muddy. Heavy down pours and local boagns on motorbikes made it tough to concentrate and concentration was what was needed. Single Tracks were easuier to ride that the deeply eroded and rutted fire trails. Made some seriously wrong route choices going over the spur instead of along it. Then lost my e-stick with 3 controls to go. Went back and found it..lucky. Had to convionce the organisers to give me a finish time. Why is it that mainlanders have such a tough time believing people when they tell them something. I am seriously considering never leaving Tasmania again.
Come off a couple of times beacuse of the clip in pedals. Bloody use;less in the mud..Made it tougher to ride than standard pedals. I gues the trick is to ride everything and not put your fott down. Learnt the stanp down mud release technique today. |
| Mountain Bike Orienteering race (Australian Sprint Champs) 43:02 [5] * 7 km (6:09 / km) | |
| spiked:11/14c shoes: Wellgo MTB |
| Took this one slowly as didn't want to make any mistakes like the previous race. Ended up going my usual pace..slow. Lost the plot when I nearly got head-oned by a kid on a loud motorbike. There was also local bogans doing circle work. Lots of rubbish in the bush here. It seems a bogan paradise..reminded me of Argonaut Road a bit..only place like it in Tasmania.
Not fast enough on the day. Last again. Broke teh chain guard thingy off the bike. No major hassles. Bike is very muddy. |
Tuesday Oct 30 |
| Running 1:00:00 [3] 7 km (8:34 / km) +385m 6:43 / km | |
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| Walk/run up eastern face of Mt Pearson from Cosy Corner (sea level) after work. Bloody awesome views from this side of mountain. I think I prefer running in steel capped blunnies. |