Training Log Archive: NSW Stinger

morning ride with Duncan, and a big group of his buddies (and parents). It is the Iimiis cafe ride but when their service went downhill they moved to Cafe Aura- good move.
It was a very cruisy ride for most of it, Duncan's mum yells at you if you go too fast! But I think group rides are cheating anyway, its just too easy. Nice way to crank out 80km though. Traralgon, Glengarry, Toongabie, Cowwar and back. Strangely the hot weather disappeared overnight and there was even a bit of rain. After a coffee break, I felt good enough to keep going so I went out to Tyers, climbed the hill and back to Morwell via Yallourn Nth. Felt really good for most of the ride.

Sculpting the guns to look like Raefa. Doesn't Roger look scrawny in comparison.
And won money on Nadal at $2.50- sweet!

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i got home at 10.30pm last night after getting a lift with Kathryn folks from the airport. When we got to Thorpdale you could see the big red glow and I though shit that's close. Ten Mile Creek Road had a closed sign which we ignored. A couple of mins later, and 2km from home we found a spot fire just getting going about 50m to the west of the road. After a moment thought John and I hoped out and took a couple of branches to it. It was only about 4x4m but I was surprised how much effort it took and heat it disbursed. Just as we had it under control and were digging up some dirt to chuck over it and other truck came along and were surprised of the fire. They called big truck down to finish it off. So at least it made my trip home seem worthwhile. But keen sandles and white boardies probably aren't the most appropriate gear.
The front had moved north and was now 1.5km from the house so it was an uneventful night. But the wind is picking up now so the smoke is blowing away and you can see where the fires are. There's plenty of helicopter action down at the dam, but now flames in sight for the moment.

Didn't really feel like doing anything, so did a bit of weights

Well Kathryn is packing the car with our valuable possessions as the bushfire that started yesterday is fighting against the wind and jumped the highway on route to the DIS.
Any hints on what I should be saving? (since I'm in Canberra) Since my car is broken anyway I have asked Kath to roll it into the fire and film it burning.

Well the fire has now jumped across the highway (against the wind) and within 1km of our house. Here is a map of the area at 4am (we live at 332 588).

http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/images/news_im...



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morning commute from Matt's to ACTAS.

Yesterday arvo I planned to meet Kathryn at the coast to go for a paddle. When I hoped in the car, the bastard wouldn't start. Probably blew another starter motor or something. So annoyed as I couldn't wait to get out of the house.
The temp about the back of our house peaked at 45.2degrees about 5pm. We went for a swim in the dam at the bottom of the hill which was nice, but needs a better access point. I've encouraged Kath to build a jetty.

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a very slow and pathetic jog along TMCRd before heading to Melbourne on the train (then to Canberra by plane).

a not very early moring ride. Down the hill to Driffield, parallel to the highway to Narracan, then onto Princes to Trafalgar. Up the big hill to Thorpdale (actually not as big as I expected) then towards MN, onto Strezlecki and home. Felt pretty good in parts and pushed hard for the last 30mins to keep average up at 30kph. It was 23 degrees when i started and 33 when I finished.

morning run before it got too hot. Along TMCRd, then thru all the single tracks and back thru the plantations. Legs didn't have much pep but it could have been worse.

morning run with Kathryn and Aislinn who was the last remaining visitor. We drove to Rosedale, then south to some forest, just to go somewhere different (and Aislinn was heading to Sale). Mostly on softish sandy tracks and a bit on bitumen. Once I warmed up I felt pretty good and it was quite hot by the end.

After the run we drove north to Blores Hill mountain bike trails, near Lake Glenmaggie. There are some fun trails through pretty open euculypt forest and not too many hills. Tried most of the trails, there is about 15km of single track. Legs were a bit tired from yesterdays ride.
We stopped for a swim at Cowwarr weir on the way home. Plenty of people enjoying Australia Day.