Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

I'll be going on some reasonably rough roads over the next fortnight, but this morning involved a higher risk of a flat tyre than the rockiest outback track: riding the Yarra Boulevard. I did, however, manage to avoid any of the calling cards of the Boulie Tacker (who seems to have been lying reasonably low since the police released an image of a person of interest a few weeks back), and had as reasonable a ride as you can reasonably expect in the middle of peak hour. Hamstring fatigued a little towards the end but no pain as such.

Hit the road shortly after this, getting as far north as Balranald, taking in some previously unexplored territory in northern Victoria between Bendigo and Kerang (including seeing how much of a pyramid Pyramid Hill is). Very green and rather wet in much of northern Victoria - some of the 'dry weather only' roads looked very muddy - but somewhat drier north of the border, which given what my plans are for the next couple of days is a good thing.

I was last in Balranald in 1990 (it's on an obvious route choice from Canberra to South Australia, but isn't really on the way from Melbourne to anywhere except Lake Mungo). It doesn't give me the impression there's been a lot of progress in these parts in the last 26 years, and strangely it doesn't seem to have a pub in any meaningful sense (although it does have an RSL club so I didn't have to resort to roadhouse food).