Training Log Archive: AndreM

Event: Red Hill
 

Decided to get up at 630 for 730 depart - which we pretty much managed, leaving at about 750am. Quite cold to start with, had to put gloves over my bikes gloves. Beautiful morning with clear skies and mist and nice track and bush. North along tracks Tableland from the hut to Surveyor Rd to Nockine Rd and then finally Firewood Rd. Firewood road has the longest hill I've experienced in a long while (6km). The towing system that Tim setup on his and my bike worked great, and I unfortunately started this never ending hill towing Janet since Tim had until then done most of the hard work. This ride was harder than I thought it would be, and longer, we estimated about 21k but it was about 30. Pushing the pace to try get to the orienteering preferably by 1030, but only arrived at Mundaring Dome at 10 totally done and called it a day. Enjoyed plates of hot food and drinks in the sun.

Pleasant ride down from Mundaring along the heritage trail, through Guilford, Midland (?) and then over to Belmont, Rivervale. Job done, about 210k on the bike and 23k on foot. An awesome weekend and very happy with our preparation as a team.